500px

Search by Creative Commons licenses.

Albumarium

Various Creative Commons license content, check the license before you download.

Ancestry Images

Old images and maps free for personal use.

Art Institute of Chicago

Click the Show Filters button to select only from the public domain.

Artstor

Behold

Search for images on Flickr that are free to use

BigFoto

Royalty-free photo agency

Burst

Shopify's stock photograph free for commercial use.

Camarama

Free public domain images

Canva free stock photos

Compfight

Once you perform a search, you can limit your results to Creative Commons content

Creative Commons Image Search

Critical Past

Vintage stock footage and stock photo images, all royalty-free.

Death to the Stock Photo

Sign up to receive a new package of images that you are free to use as you please each month.

DesignersPics.com

Ellis Island Photographs

In the public domain.

Europeana

Online collection of content from European libraries, archives, museums and other institutions. Do a regular search and then limit your results to items that are freely usable or available under a Creative Commons license using the menu for Copyright in t

Everypixel

Search engine for finding photos.

EveryStockPhoto

Search for photographs and be sure to read the license before you use it

FindA.Photo

Free stock images from Unsplash, Jay Mantri, and many more

Flickr: British Library

Flickr: Commons

Flickr: Creative Commons

Foodies Feed

Free images of food.

Foodshot

Images of food free to use, all images under the Creative Commons Zero license.

Fotor

Search for free photos

FREE for commercial use

Public domain photos.

Free Foto

Free photographs

Free Images

Free Nature Stock

Free Photos Bank

Free stock photos

Free photos from Helsinki Finland

Free Pixels

Download free photos and images

FreeDigitalPhotos

Must give credit for the image

freeimages

Must give credit for the image

Freeimages.pictures

Search for images

FreeRangeStock.com

Geek Philosopher

Free stock photos

Getty Images

Free to embed only (using the embed tag)

Getty Museum Collection

Google Images

Run a search in the regular Google Image search bar and then on the results page, click on the gear button in the upper right hand corner of the page. Click on the middle option, Advanced Search. That takes you to a page with search options, the last one

Gratisography

HubSpot

Fill out a form to download 75 free photographs.

IM Creator

Pick a collection and then you can search.

Imagefinder

Searches Flickr's creative common photos.

Internet Archive Book Images

At Flickr The Common

ISO Republic

Sort by category. Photos submitted by various photographers.

Jeshoots

KaboomPics

Use the photos for anything, just can't sell them.

Kaboompics

Kunstmuseum Basel

Let's CC

Search for Creative Commons-licensed content.

Library of Congress - Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection

From a Newsweek staff photographer based in New York for three decades.

Library of Congress - Carpenter Collection

Library of Congress - Civil War

Library of Congress - Curtis (Edward S.) Collection

Library of Congress - Daguerreotypes

Library of Congress - Detroit Publishing Company

Library of Congress - Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives

Library of Congress - Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives

Library of Congress - Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive

Library of Congress - Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

Some may not be in the public domain.

Library of Congress - National Child Labor Committee Collection

Library of Congress - Photochrom Prints

Colored images look like photographs but are actually ink-based photolithographs.

LibreStock

Multi-search engine for creative commons photos.

Life of Pix

Free photos, can be used for commercial use.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

All images are free for non-commercial use.

MMT

Free photos and videos.

Morgue File

Free raw photo materials. Free ones have Morguefile license.

NASA Images

National Archives - Archival Research Catalog

A searchable database of digitialized photos, movies, video, and sound.

National Library of Medicine

National Library of Medicine on Flickr Commons.

Negative Space

New Old Stock

Vintage photos from public archives.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

Images from the New York Public Library in the public domain.

OpenPhoto

Openverse

Paris Musées

Out-of-copyright works are in the public domain.

PD Photo.org

Royalty free, public domain, stock photos.

Pexels

Creative Commons pictures that you can use anywhere for any purpose.

Photo Pin

Search Flickr for Creative Commons images

Picjumbo

Picography

Pixabay

Free, public domain images

Pond5 Photos

Public Domain Archive

Has vintage and modern images

Public Domain Pictures.net

Free photographs

Public Rack

RaumRot

Free to use and adapt for personal and commercial purposes.

re:splashed

Hack for Unsplash with enhanced functionality.

Realistic Shots

Rijksmuseum

Images that are in the public domain are clearly marked

Skitter Photo

Public domain images from some photographres in the Netherlands.

Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art

SplitShire

Stock Up

Search free stock photo websites in one place.

StockCake

Collection of AI-generated photos, all available in the public domain for free.

Stockio

Free photos, vectors, icons, fonts and videos

StockSnap.io

Free stock photos.

StockVault

SumAll

The Getty Trust

Public domain images

U.S. Government Photos and Graphics

Search for images from all collections.

U.S. Government Photos and Graphics - Department of Agriculture Research Service

U.S. Government Photos and Graphics - Fish & Wildlife Service National Digital Library

U.S. Government Photos and Graphics - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth

U.S. Government Photos and Graphics - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Great Images in NASA

U.S. Government Photos and Graphics - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Visible Earth

U.S. Government Photos and Graphics - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Photo Library

Unprofound.net

Royalty free photographsWest.

Unsplash

Wellcome Images

Free for personal and academic use

Wikimedia Commons

Freely used media files

Wikipedia:Public domain image resources

Lots of links for getting public domain images

Yale University Art Gallery

When you click an image, it will tell you if it's in the public domains