Visual Communication: Images, Photos, Illustrations

Provides curated collections of more than 2 million images of art, architecture, artifacts, and primary documents, including costume and set renderings, playbills, production photos, etc. Time periods range from ancient to modern and geographic locations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. (Off-campus? Read "More" information below.)

The world's largest museum and research complex, with 19 museums, 9 research centers and more than 140 affiliate museums around the world. Check out the Terms of Use page for information about permitted uses of their content.

Discover 50 million images, texts, videos, and sounds from archives across the US.

Discover cultural heritage objects from over 3,000 European institutions.

Browse through over 600 million visual objects, free to reuse!

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, which may allow free use under specific circumstances. Descriptions of those licenses appear on the right side of this Flickr site and at CreativeCommons.org.

When searching The Noun Project, you may need help coming up with the right term to bring up a relevant image. Try using the OED Thesaurus to come up with synonyms and related concepts.

Photos for commercial use, your blog posts, social accounts and mockups, sent to you by email every month.

Search results point to free vector art, illustrations, icons, PSD and photos for using in websites, banners, presentations, magazines...

7 new hi-res, creative commons/public domain images every week.

Vintage photos from the public archives of libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions, free of known copyright restrictions.

Stock image community where photographers & artists share their own photos and artwork with a variety of licenses.

The Western Soundscape Archive offers thousands of recordings of Western animal species and their environments.

The Acoustic Atlas will collect the sounds of Montana and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, along with habitats and species from throughout the Western United States.

Symbols & pictograms. All copyright free WITH attribution. Requires a free account to download the images.

This tool makes illustration easy for everyone by applying machine learning technology to quick sketches.

Drag-and-drop icons to create life science-based illustrations for use in posters and websites. Free for "Educational Use".