Getting Started
- Flickr: Creative Commons
- Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.
- Flickr: The Commons
- The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives.
- Images for Publication
- Sources of free images for scholarly publication, and fee-based licensing for all publication purposes.
- Laurier Archives Images
- The University Archives collection of digitized photographs, documenting WLU life, people and history.
- Google Images (advanced search)
- Narrow down your Google Image search results, including by "usage rights."
- Wikimedia Commons
- Images, video and sound clips from Wikipedia, mostly in the public domain.
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Specialized Collections
- Ad*Access
- Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.
- Art Images for College Teaching
- Art and architecture from ancient to 20th century; also examples of non-western art.
- CN Images of Canada Gallery
- Canadian National Railway collection of photographs documenting much of Canada’s history, from the 1850s.
- ContentDM Collection of Collections
- Images in a wide variety of topics digitized from libraries and museums from around the world.
- Early Encounters in North America (library subscription)
- Prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, letters, and photographs documenting the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534-1850. An advanced image search page is available via the "Images" link under "Find."
- EduPic Graphical Resource
- Includes images for sciences, geography, social studies, ancient civilizations, and Anasazi cave dwellings.
- Getty Images
- Over 50 million images from the Getty stock images, which can be embedded into web pages.
- JSTOR (library subscription)
- In JSTOR, you can search the captions of images within items in the database. To search for content with images use the “caption” option on the drop-down menu on the Advanced Search page.
- LIFE Photo Archive
- Historic photographs from the archives of LIFE magazine.
- New York Public Library Digital Collections
- Photographs, illuminated manuscripts, historical maps,and much more, in areas from art and culture to industry and technology.
- North American Indian Thought and Culture (library subscription)
- A link to images can be found under "Tables of Contents." Browse different types of images by clicking on the links at the top of the page.
- OMuRAA: Online Museum Resources on Asian Art
- Gathers together topics image resources from many museums and arts-related educational institutions.
- Pics4Learning
- Images of diverse topics from American Sign Language, Animals, Art, to Weather and more.
- Portrait Gallery of Canada
- Images and documentation about people significant to the history and culture of Canada.
- Smithsonian Institution - Collection Searching Center
- Includes images and resources related to art, design, history, culture, science, and technology from all the Smithsonian libraries, archives, and specialized research units.
- Visualizing Cultures
- Exploring early-modern and modern China and Japan, material is organized into units addressing cultures of modernization, consumerism, and war and peace.
- Wellcome Images
- The collection is organized in five broad categories: Illness and Wellness, Life, Culture, Nature, and War;also searchable by historical and/or contemporary times. The Culture section includes Asian and European manuscripts and art.
- World Images Kiosk
- Images organized into 650 portfolios, including art, literature, theatre, dance, architecture, technology,history, world cultures, cultural interactions, and nature.