PHOTOS

PHOTO SOURCES

REMEMBER to record your source for everything you find!

PHOTO SOURCES

General Sources

ClassroomClipArt Includes photos and clipart

Dorling Kindersley clipart

everystockphoto.com Searchable database of photos; Creative Commons licensed. Attribution required.

Firstgov.com Photos from various US government agencies

Gimp-Savvy: community-tagged photos from public domain sources

Image*After More than 16,000 copyright-free textures and photos ^^^

MorgueFile.com

PicFinder: searches several copyright-friendly sites ^^^

pics4learning.com thousands of images for educators & students.

Stock.xchng.com Searchable database of photos; freely usable for educational purposes.

Smithsonian Images: an AMAZING collection of photos on science and history. You must credit the Smithsonian and the photographer.

The Visible Earth: a catalog of NASA images and animations

Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons licensed photos

Animals & Plants

CalPhotos: search more than 100,000 images of people, places, animals, and landscapes.

Classroom Clipart Animals

Encyclopedia of Life: a website with an ambitious purpose: to document the over 1.8 million species on the planet.

NBII Digital Image Library: searchable animal photos.

US Fish & Wildlife Service: searchable database of photos.

Art

Art Images for College Teaching: hundreds of images of art & architecture arranged by historical period. Freely useable as long as you cite the source.

Exploratorium: "The museum of science, art, and human perception." One of the most fascinating museums in the country, the Exploratorium provides a rich and comprehensive digital library. Freely useable for noncommercial uses, provided a copyright notice and link are provided with the image.

Physics, Astronomy, Space Science

Emilio Segre Visual Archives: from the American Institue of Physics, a collection of more than 25,000 images of famous scientists and science history.

HubbleSite: an amazing picture album of photos from the Space Telescope

Johnson Space Center: photos of the whole history of the US Space Program.

NASA Photos

National Science Digital Library

NOAA Photo Galleries National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration photos: in the public domain.

Planetary Photojournal: a collection of NASA photos about the planets and other objects in the solar system.

Places and Maps

CIA World Factbook: maps & facts about the world.

Clasroom Clipart Maps

Australian Antarctic Division Picture Gallery: great photos of the Antarctic

Science

Exploratorium: "the museum of science, art, and human perception." One of the most fascinating museums in the country, the Exploratorium offers a rich and comprehensive digital library. Freely useable for noncommercial uses, provided a copyright notice and link are provided with the image.

See also: Physics, Astronomy, and Space Science above.

Social Studies / History

Art Images for College Teaching: hundreds of images of art & architecture arranged by historical period. Freely useable as long as you cite the source.

CalPhotos: search more than 100,000 images of people, places, animals, and landscapes.

Flags of the World: from the CIA World Factbook.

Library of Congress American Memory Collection Check copyright restrictions carefully.

National Park Service: lots of photos of historic sites

NY State Archives

People and Places of the World

Smithsonian Images: an amazing collection! You must credit the Smithsonian and the photographer.