Is there a good website for public domain images?

FREE public domain images

• 'The Factbook is in the public domain. Accordingly, it may be copied freely without permission of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).' - http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/contributor_copyright.html So I have a FREE source for countries flags and maps and content. Which other websites (quality websites as CIA.gov) are of the public domain et cetera where I can copy from there and paste to my website images and content? Thanks.

• Answer:

  Dear courious, Thank you for your question. There are numerous institution, most of them public, that made their images a public domain. A large list of publicly available pictures, directed at teaching, could be found at Springfield Township High School Library site, http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/cfimages.html. They direct you to the proper usage of images, and the need to credit them also when they are copyright free at http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/guidelines.html. Princeton Online also has such a list, at http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/clipart.html, although they admit that some of the links might be broken. Their list contains mostly fine art pieces. Slippery Rock University's Website stipulates, that "The U.S. Copyright Office's circular entitled Copyright Basics and particularly the section on How long copyright protection endures, explain why these images came to belong to the public. In a nutshell, works published prior to 1978 were protected for a maximum of 75 years. See "sources", below for more information on these particular images." (Source "Images in Public Domain" http://www.sru.edu/depts/cisba/compsci/dailey/public/public_domain.htm). This site also contains many public domain images to be used, ordered by categories (2 of machinery, and 4 of animals). Wickipedia has another such list, sorted alphabetically by categories at http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources Pictures depicting space and nature sceneries, from NASA, NOAA and FWS could be found at Gimp-Savvy photo archive <http://gimp-savvy.com/index.html>. Please read their note on the proper usage of these images at <http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/index.html>. The FWS (Fish and Wildlife Service) public domain images could be also found at http://images.fws.gov/. Last but not least, for me, the coolest site was The College of New Jersey's "Images of American Political History" <http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/>, with many famous pictures such as Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin (http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail394.html), Nixon Leaving the White House (http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail483.html), andMap of Mannados or Manhattan in 1661, (http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail6.html) This disccussions might also interest you: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22public+domain%22+images&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=Xns932AEDA3DC17D42tatltuae%40130.133.1.4&rnum=6 I hope this answered your question. My search was very fruitful and yielded many more sites - you could see them all by cliking on my search terms here: ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22public+domain%22+images . If you need any clarification on this answer, please let me know. I'd be pleased to clarify my answer before you rate it.