If you're searching for an image to use in an assignment, you'll need to make sure you have the right to do so. Copyright holders can use a Creative Commons license to assign usage rules and let users like you know what can and can't be done with images. Use the Creative Commons CC Search page to find licensed images that you can use for scholarly purposes.
Google Images is a quick and easy way to find lots of images from web pages across the globe. But the quality of images - size, resolution, description, usage rights - also varies considerably on the open web. Use Google Advanced Search, or the Tool bar, to refine your search results. You can limit by size, color, file type, time, usage rights and more.
CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.
The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives.
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Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Pexels license. All photos are tagged, searchable, and easy to discover through their discover pages.
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High resolution, free to use photos, indexed by themes.
A collection of 78,459,000 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
The Getty Search Gateway allows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids.
This collection includes photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.
Search over 400,000 images in the Met's collection. Filter by artist, object type, location, date, and department.
Spanning a wide range of historical eras, geography, and media, NYPL Digital Collections offers drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, videos, audio, and more.