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Sep 9, 2024 · If you are browsing Commons for the first time, you may want to start with Featured pictures, Quality images, Valued images or Featured media. You can also see some work created by our highly skilled contributors in Meet our photographers and Meet our illustrators .
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Images are one of the many types of media used on Wikipedia and may be photos, drawings, logos, or graphs. All pictures used must be legal in the United States, where Wikimedia's servers are located. Images are stored on the Wikipedia website or the partner Wikimedia Commons website.
Mar 23, 2023 · Photographs. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: Photographs +/−. This category should only contain other categories. Galleries should be in the corresponding categories instead. Files should be in a parent or subcategory. photograph. image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface. Upload media.
Aug 11, 2024 · Featured pictures are images from highly skilled creators that the Wikimedia Commons community has chosen as some of the highest quality on the site. Simply click on the name of a category on this page to see the featured images for that subject. To reuse any images from Wikimedia Commons please see this guide.
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Note: Accurate photographs of two-dimensional visual artworks lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the artwork's copyright has expired (which it has in the US if it was published before 1923). All other copyright notices can safely be ignored.
Automotive
1. The Crittenden Automotive Library. Not all are PD! The image detail page will state the status, PD images will be marked "Public domain" or by year of publication if before 1922.
Computer-Generated Maps
1. Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, USGS– Automatic public domain map generating program. 2. PAT public domain maps: world, regional, country state (US, CA, AU)
Medicine
1. History of Medicineat the National Library of Medicine. Most but not all of the exhibitions are PD. Clicking on "Metadata" near the bottom of the page will generate a popup window with information that includes rights usage for each page. 2. National Cancer Institute Visuals Online-Great resource for electron microscopy and histological images. Includes general biomedical and science-related images, cancer-specific scientific and patient care-related images, and portraits of directors and...
Clip art, in the graphic arts, refers to pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Clip art is generally composed exclusively of illustrations (created by hand or by computer software), and does not include stock photography. 1. http://www.wpclipart.com– exists to maintain and grow an online collection of artwork for schoolkids and others that...
Australia
1. Trove, the National Library of Australia's search engine, includes over 400 thousand freely licensed images, about 300 thousand of which are in the public domain or available under a CC0 license.
Ireland
1. ireland-information.comThousands of Public domain photographs of Ireland, Irish history, scenery, castles, landscapes, etc. as well as photos of items that can be applied to any project: animals, houses, buildings, etc. 2. The National Library of Ireland on FlickrUploads hundreds of public domain historic images of Ireland. Much greater ease of use for Wikipedia needs than the actual National Library of Ireland website. 3. The House of the Oireachtas on Flickruploads hundreds of images fro...
Mexico
1. PlayaDelCarmenMexico.orgPublic domain photos of Playa del Carmen.
Images from The Newgate Calendar. Crimes and criminals from the 18th century Newgate Calendar.http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ Collection images scanned from various old books that are now in the public domain. Searchable. Used to be under http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/Child Labor in America 1908 – 1912 by Lewis W. HinePhotos of the Great War many images of World War I, scanned in from public domain resources. Slight usage notice, which is probably compatible with GFDL (requires attribution and link, as does GFDL...http://books.google.com – Scanned-in books & historical documents. Keyword searchable. Great source for diagrams/illustrations. (not all public domain, many still in copyright) Books google believe...Apr 30, 2016 · Wikimedia Commons includes more than 100 million freely licensed media files—photos, audio, and video—ranging from stunning photos of geographic landscapes to donations from institutions with substantial media collections, like the Smithsonian, NASA, and the British Library.
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Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making freely licensed media available to everyone. You can upload images, audio, PDF files, and video to Wikimedia Commons, as long as you own them.
