Images for Designers and Art Researchers

User-created content and content contributed by institutions such as the Library of Congress and the Brooklyn Museum: mostly current and recent photographs.

Huge stock photography and illustrations database. Images can be limited by people, location, concept, subject or composition.

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.

Photographs, prints, maps, manuscripts and book pages digitized from NYPL Collections.

Images Online is the Picture library of the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom.

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science.

The Europeana online portal was launched in 2008 and provides access to over 19 million objects from European libraries, museums, archives, galleries, and audiovisual collections. More than 1,500 heritage institutions contribute cultural content. Objects relate to science, media and art and are available in different formats (text, images, audio/video, etc.) and in every European language.

The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress.

The Media History Digital Library is a non-profit initiative, led by Eric Hoyt at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, dedicated to digitizing historic books and magazines about film, broadcasting, and recorded sound for broad public access.

Images from Dutch history from the national library of The Netherlands.

Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).

Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

The World Bank has a distinctive collection of over 13,000 images that illustrate development through topics such as Agriculture, Education, Environment, Health, Trade and more.

Photographer-contributed stock photography

Over 60 million high quality stock images, vectors and videos from the world’s largest stock photo collection

Specializes in multicultural stock photography

Burst is a free stock photo site that is powered by Shopify. All the photos on our platform are offered under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, which means you’re welcome to use the photos for any purpose.

German user-generated photo sharing site. Use Google Translate to find the German translation of your keyword.

Freepik is a graphic resource start-up with millions of images. Our database is always increasing with new photos, vectors, PSD files, icons, and now with Slide templates for Powerpoint and Google Slides.

Huge stock photography and illustrations database. Images can be limited by people, location, concept, subject or composition.

ISO Republic provides free stock photos for creative professionals. This website was founded in 2014 by Tom Eversley, a designer and photographer from England.

Member-generated stock photo site

Kaboompics is one of the most popular source of free images for lifestyle, interior design and specialized bloggers in World.

Independent stock photo agency with unique picture search

NegativeSpace is about creating communities: A community of photographers who want to share their work. And a community of online visitors who want to use their beautiful, free high-resolution images without any restrictions.

picjumbo is free stock photo site created by designer & photographer Viktor Hanacek in 2013. It all started when any regular stock photo site didn‘t want his photos due to lack of quality. Two years later people downloaded more than two and half millions images from this site.

Tagged, contemporary images -- some free and some available for licensing.

Founded in 2003 and headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock is an innovative technology company, operating in more than 150 countries and 20 languages. As a two-sided marketplace, our mission is to connect creative professionals with the best photos, vectors, illustrations and video from thousands of contributors around the world.

Explore the George Eastman Museum's collections online. More than a quarter of a million objects from the photography, technology, and George Eastman Legacy collections are now searchable, and more of the museum's vast holdings will be added on an ongoing basis.

Since its establishment in 2007 as both a photo agency and foundation, the international roster of NOOR’s - an Arabic word meaning "light" - accomplished and award-winning member photographers have documented civil and political unrest, environmental issues, war, famine, and natural disasters throughout the globe: from Africa and the Middle East to the Americas.