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The most comprehensive list of free clip
art, public domain images & photos links on the internet!
 These
links lead off of our website. Use them at your own risk. If you find a
link that goes to an inappropriate site, please notify Ken
Rohrer immediately.
- 1 Art, with many images of oil paintings for private
use.
 1Photos.com - All of his photos are free for corporate and personal use.- 4freephotos.com - High quality stock and public domain images free of charge.
- A Clip Art History- Free public-domain high quality clipart for all history related
projects.
- Alegri Photos - Free stock photos under Creative Commons license.
- All Free Images- Lots of photos that you can arrange by size, date, and name.
- American
Postcard Art These are not public domain images -- but are
of value to the art teacher. Lots of images of architecture that
would be helpful in your units. Atlanta collection from 1900's
to 1940's, plus more than 72,000 different museum-quality art prints
online, everything from Art Nouveau Pigeons to Zeppelins
- ArtServe,
a large collection of art from the Mediterranean Basin.
- Astronomy
Images Database: Messier Catalog. Find more
images from NASA
- Astronomy
images from NNSDC. Other
image sites
- Awesome
Clipart for Kids. Kid & family-friendly free clipart, banners,
backgrounds, icons, lines and browser skins, with aliens, animals,
cats, creatures, dogs, fonts, holidays, robots, sports, toys, weather,
our favorite sites & more - expanded & updated weekly!
- Backgrounds
Archive All photographs and background images in Public Domain.
Animals, nature, cities, people and more. You do not need to register
to save images.
- Barry's Clip Art Server, with clip art by subject. This is an archive of the site.
- Cartoonz Xplored- In their gallery, they have regular and animated clip art.
- Christmas
Clip Art Plus Free holiday clip art
- Classroom
Clipart- With school-related
images by category.
- Clipart ETC- An online service of Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse. They claim to have at least 25,000 of free clipart.
- Clipart.com- You have to put up with a lot of ads, but you eventually get to the free art.
- Clip Art Connection- although they have a paid service, there is some free art here too.
- Clip Art Gallery- a selection of clip art by Discovery Education.
- Coloring Spot- This site contains line drawings of a variety of subjects. The line drawings can also serve as coloring handouts.
- Copyright
Free Photos - copyright free photo library for any use.
- Crazy Frankenstein- Free flash animations, wallpaper, clip art, and sounds.
- DanceArt.Com,
with ballet and dance
art.
- Diganta's
World, a collection of Holiday ASCII art
- Directory
of Free Clip Art Sites - compiled by Lynne Levy, Ed.D. Schaub
Instructional Technology Center Rowan University
- Discovery Education's Clip Art Gallery- With many categories!
- Dr.
Zeus' Textures. Backgrounds made with photographs.
- EB Awareness Graphics- You can download free clip art of fairies and angels.
- Eos Development Resources- A large collection of free graphics such as textures, borders and buttons.
- ESL / EFL Clip Art- For those who are dealing with students whose native language isn't English.
- Fighter Jetz- A collection of free photos of military fighter planes from around the world.
- Fiona's
Shark Mania, a site with shark clip art, graphics, and stories.
- Freefoto -
offering free images to educators. They claim to have over 121,099 images.
- Free Artistic Photos- A collection of free photos by category.
- FreePhotos.se -
all public domain photographs. A collection of nature, animals,
buildings, flowers, winter scenes and more. This site is by Magnus
Rosendahl, Sweden.
- Free Stock Images - With public domain images.
- Free Stock Photos.biz - With over 12,000 categorized free images.
- Freeze Clip art- You can select images sizes up to 640X480.
- Geek
Philosopher- Barbara Hocking - Public Domain Photographs. Food,
nature, people, animals and more - See more links to images at
bottom of page.
- IAD's free stuff page- Where you can find a lot more free stuff!
- Images,
Audio, and Video Clip - Public Domain image sources compiled
by Alix Peshette, Davis Joint Unified School District. Some resources
on the sites are from copyrighted sources and must be acknowledged
as such (sites allow Fair Use for educational purposes).
- The
Jolly Roger GIF animation Gallery, where you are free to pirate
any image.
- Kaboose Clip Art- They have a lot of categories.
- Karen's
Whimsy Public Domain Images Scans by Karen Hatzigeorgiou -
engravings and other artwork from a personal collection of old
books, magazines, and post cards. Updated regularly. See her
artwork - altered books and collage
- Library
of Congress, with prints and photographs in the public domain.
- LifeArt Studios with
free medical clip art.
- Mark
Harden's FTP Site for Art Images, with over 1,300 images. These
are not in public domain, but can be used by art teachers for PowerPoint
and in class use.
- Medical
and Science Clip Art Free Medical and Science clip Art from
3D Science.com.
- Microsoft
Office Clip Art and Media-
large collection of clip art arranged by category.
- Music Roman- The owner of the site tells me that all the images and music may be used for free.
- My Free Digital Images - An amateur photgrapher provides free use of his images.
- NASA
Dryden Aircraft Photo Archive.
- The
National Library of Australia's Documentary Images - Pictures Catalog This
contains more than 13,000 digitized images of Australian pictorial
works including watercolours, paintings, drawings, prints and photographs.
See also Digital Collections and Picture
Australia.
- Netscape's
Background Textures- With several free textures for your background and desktop.
- Open Clip
Art Library The images there are vector clipart (so they scale
well to different sizes -- but bitmap thumbnails are also provided
in PNG format. This resource is growing - submit your own clip
art for sharing.
- Open Directory- A large collection of clip art links.
- PhotoGraphic
Libraries The stock images, film and photo archives listed
provide a creative source for television producers, advertising
agencies, libraries, education centres, picture researchers and
Photojournalist researching visual communications --contains national
and private photographic collections.
- Photo SeeSee- A site with images of China. Unfortunately this site is no longer free.
- Photos 8- With many public domain photos
- Pics4Learning -
offering free images for educators.
- PicDrome- A collection of public domain and copyright free pictures, under Creative Commons license releasing them into public domain.
- Pixelatestudio.com Photographs
from Holland and Belgium. Landscapes, animals, nature and more. Teachers
may use images for educational purposes. No commercial use permitted.
Site is by Hans Jasperse.
- Public Domain Image- A categorized site full of free images in the public domain..
- Public Domain
Images, a large collection of free and inexpensive photos and
images. This is an archive of the site.
- QBullets-
Icons, a site with many small icons for use on a web page.
- Reusable Art- A collection of art that have expired copyrights and are now in the public domain. A good place to find old images.
- Teacher Files Clip Art- with free educational clip art.
- Thousand Cranes Peace Network- This site has clip art of doves, cranes, sadako and more.
- Timo's
Christian Clipart Site, with a lot of Christian-related clip
art.
- Training Reference - Free Photos galleries contain original, royalty
free pictures and photos for use in training materials, presentations
and websites. Many images from nature. Site by Steven Haines.
- U.S. History Images- A large collection of images relating to U.S. history by Karen Whimsy.
- Vintage Resources- A large collection of vintage images in the public domain.
- Vintage
Valentine Art with free art and art for sale.
- Web
Clip Art, a site by About.com.
- Web
page clip art - Try any of these sources (from Google Search)
- WiseGorilla
Free Educational Clip Art - features
free educational clip art and links to other quality educational
clip art sites. This is an archive of the site.
- WP
Clipart - at present there are a little over 7,500 images.
All public domain. All sized and adjusted to use easily in word
processors. Site is by Paul Sherman.
- Zorger.com- with many images in the public domain.
Copyright Law and
the Artist
What images can I use for free from the internet? Copyright
issues are becoming an important aspect of students' and educators'
work on the internet. Read about some copyright
myths, and licensing
still images. You can read about copyright
law and the internet, and you must see The
Copyright Website. The latest copyright news and legislation
can be found at the Creative
Incentive Coalition. Educators have some additional rights
to copyrights. You may visit Copyright
and the Visual Arts for questions and counsel. There is an interesting site talking about the copyright extension that was passed by our legislators.
If you're not sure about the
status of a copyright, you can enter the title and/or author of the work
at the U.S. Copyright
Office. See the Art
Teachers Guide to Copyright for more information.
Quick Reference-
Public Domain Criteria
Date
of Work
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Protected
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Term
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Created
1/1/78 or after
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When
work is fixed in tangible medium of expression
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Life
+ 70 years (or if work of
corporate authorship, the shorter of 95 years from publication, or 120
years from creation
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Published
before 1923
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In
public domain
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None
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Published
from 1923 - 1963
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When
published with notice
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28
years + could be renewed for 47 years, now extended by 20 years
for a total renewal of 67 years. If not so renewed, now in
public domain
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Published
from 1964 - 1977
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When
published with notice
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28
years for first term; now automatic extension of 67 years for second term
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Created
before 1/1/78 but not published
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1/1/78,
the effective date of the 1976 Act which eliminated common
law copyright
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Life
+ 70 years or 12/31/2002, whichever is greater
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Created
before 1/1/78 but published between then and 12-31-2002
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1/1/78,
the effective date of the 1976 Act which eliminated common
law copyright |
Life
+ 70 years or 12/31/2047
whichever is greater
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