For selfish reasons, I’m offering you this list of places to find copyright-cleared and royalty-free images. My scattered list of these sites is driving me crazy, and I need to keep track of these links for myself!

If you have a resource you really like, please let me know, and I’ll add it to the list.

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• Digital Image Collection from the Folger Shakespeare Library
• Freeimages.com
• Internet Archive Book Images on Flickr
• Library of Congress on Flickr
• Morguefile
• NGA Images at the National Gallery of Art
• Open Content Program at the Getty
• Pixabay
• Public Health Image Library from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Staff Copyright Guide: Copyright-cleared images from University of Derby
• Unsplash
• Wikimedia Commons: Public Domain

Blog posts that list places to find copyright-cleared and royalty-free images

• “Viva Public Domain!” by Susan Branch Smith of Basecamp Productions
• “36 Free + Low-Cost Image Sources” by Colleen Gratzer of Gratzer Graphics
• 50+ Sites for Free Images, Fonts & Icons for Your Blog by Chase Reeves at the Sparkline blog

Many thanks to the members of the DC Web Women Tech List who recently shared some of these resources.