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PHOTOS

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PHOTO SOURCES

 

REMEMBER to record your source for everything you find!

 

  1. PHOTO SOURCES
    1. General Sources
    2. Animals & Plants
    3. Art
    4. Physics, Astronomy, Space Science
    5. Places and Maps
    6. Science
    7. Social Studies / History

 

General Sources

ClassroomClipArt Includes photos and clipart

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

pics4learning.com  thousands of images for educators & students.

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

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. 

 

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.

 

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