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Images: Image Collections and Databases

This is a guide to image collections found in library databases and other online sources.

Claude Monet

Water Lilies

Image collections and databases

Public Domain & Creative Commons sources

  • Search Creative Commons (CC) 
  • Wikimedia Commons A collection of more than 1,000,000 freely usable image, video, sound, and 3D model files to which anyone can contribute and reuse. Read more about reusing content outside of Wikimedia Commons. 
  • Smithsonian Institute - Open Access Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images. Access to more than 5 million 2D and 3D digital items including images from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
  • pixabay.com Over 5 million high quality stock images, videos and music shared by the community 
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Graphics

Federal Government