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These sets are just a small sample of the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The digital collections comprise millions of items including books, newspapers, manuscripts, prints and photos, maps, musical scores, films, sound recordings and more. Whenever possible, each collection has its own rights statement which ...
- Classic Children's Books
Step back in time to enjoy celebrated stories as they were...
- Dragons
Here there be Dragons! You'll find friendly as well as...
- Public Domain Films From The National Film Registry
Free to Use and Reuse: Public Domain Films from the National...
- Free to Use and Reuse: American Revolution and Founding Washington
The maps selected for this set represent cities, battles,...
- Cats
This free-to-use set features images of cats found in the...
- Free to Use and Reuse: Nurses and Nursing
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- Presidential Portraits
Free to Use and Reuse: Presidential Portraits. A selected...
- Maps of Cities
The Library's cartographic collections include a wide array...
- Motion Picture Theaters
From splendid color images of classic theaters to beautiful...
- Classic Children's Books
- The Art Institute of Chicago. Let’s start with reference material: the work of great artists that we can use to inform our creative decisions even centuries later.
- UCLA’s Internet Archive of Children’s Story Books. Discover centuries-old stories in this archive of American children’s literature, from ancient fables to classics, for the ultimate historical inspiration for your next children’s book project.
- The British Library’s Collection on Flickr. The UK’s national library is world-renowned for its over 14 million books and several million other resources.
- Heritage Type’s Vintage Bundles. When you’re looking for interesting elements to add directly to a project (like a collage or even a website), vintage illustrations can be a great place to turn, as they are no longer under copyright.
Old Book Illustrations offers a wide range of public domain, royalty-free restored images scanned from old books. Searchable galleries include animals, plants, etc.
Reusable Art offers 100% public domain drawings and illustrations rescued from old books, magazines and other print materials. Original sources provided. A collection of over 4,755 free downloadable public domain images for crafters and web designers that have been rescued from old books, magazines, and other print materials.
Download Images of Vintage - Free for commercial use, no attribution required. From: Pattern book - Green pattern design, to Colonial Coronation Contingents Camp at Duke of Yorks School, London - 1902. Find Vintage images dated from 300 to 2022.
Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 4.9 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the ...
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Beautiful, high resolution, and ready to use for your graphic or web design, craft, school, or art project. Explore our extensive archives of thousands of gorgeous illustrations from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. You’ll find everything from fairytales and botanicals to sea creatures and vintage movie posters, spanning aesthetic ...