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Powerhouse Museum on Flickr

10 places to find free images online

Flickr.com is a free facility that allows you to store, search and share photos. Acknowledge the source of photos used.

FlickrCC Collection of Creative Commons photos on Flickr

Flickrstorm An improved search for Flickr images

A complete guide to finding and using incredible Flickr images This blog has an excellent summary of creative commons licences. Check out what the licences mean; they relate to levels of permission for using the images.

4freephotos A public domain image library but check the image useage licence

Bigfoto.com Free photos from each continent and many other categories as well. Acknowledge the source.

Everystockphoto A search engine for free photos. Click on the licence icon to check it.

Fotogenika.net Photos for free download for personal, educational, and nonprofit use. However, you cannot use them commercially, sell them, or claim authorship. The site is well organized, and it includes categories such as architecture, animals, people, and textures.

FreeDigitalPhotos.net Thousands of free photos for websites, magazines, PowerPoint presentations and schoolwork

FreeFoto.com A collection of nearly 130,000 images in 168 sections subdivided into nearly 3500 categories

Freelargephotos Nearly 3000 images in numerous categories including a Libraries one

FreeMediaGoo.com A great collection of free digital images

FreePhotosBank.com Free stock photos organised in several categories

Free pixels Nearly 4000 images in 40 categories

FreePhotosWeb  More than 6000 images in 7 categories

FreeRange

From Old Books Scanned images, engravings and pictures from old books - about 2500 images

Geo-images Project from Geogrpahy at Berkeley Permission for educational and non-profit use

ImageBase High resolution public domain photographs

LIFE photo archive Millions of historic photographs from the 1860s to today in categories such as people, places, events, sport and culture

MorgueFile.com has an organized collection of high resolution images

OpenPhoto.net Well-organised free photo site

PhotoRogue.com Allows you to request an image and photographers seek to provide it.

Picsearch.com is an image-indexing search engine. Check the licensing terms.

Pics4learning Picture collection for teachers and students; free for educational use; many categories and subcategories

Pixel perfect digital

Royalty-free clipart collection for foreign/second language instruction

StockVault

SXC.hu is a collection of over 350,000 high quality images

TurboPhoto More than 5000 photos in various categories

UVic’s Language Teaching clipart library Clipart for teaching languages

Wikipedia Public Domain Image Resources A comprehensive listing of public domain image sites but check the licences of the sites

Mashable: photography toolbox More than 90 applications relating to photos - editors, sharing and hosting sites, photo blogs, mashups
 

Thanks for some of these sites to Judy O’Connell and her HeyJude blog and the article 10 places to find free images online

in Loren Baker's Search Engine Journal.