OER Resources

The Getty Museum makes freely available all of the images to which they hold the rights or in the public domain. The Getty Search Gateway identifies open content images with a "Download" link.

This is the repository for all the images used on wikipedia -- the majority of which can be reused following the individual licenses of the creators. There are over 34 million different images available on the site!

FLIKR is an image sharing platform similar to what YouTube is for videos. Many of the images contained have Creative Commons licenses and can be used freely. Use the advanced search page to limit your search to those images without copyright issues.

Access the New York Public Library's vast collection of photographs, images and more. Many are available without copyright restrictions.

The landing page to the photo collections of the National Archives. Includes thousands of photographs and images from around the country from different times in the nation's history.