Photos

Links verified 9/18/2015

1. Agricultural Image Gallery - a complimentary source of high quality digital photographs from the Agricultural Research Service
2. American Memory Collection
3. Antarctic Photo Library - from the National Science Foundation
4. Agouti to Zebras - from the Oregon Zoo
5. Archive of animal photos - from National Geographic
6. Astronomy Image Gallery - from Astronomy.net
7. Astronomy Picture of the Day - image archive from 6/16/95 to today
8. Aurora Pictures - indexed by aurora seasons from 2000 to 2008
9. BurningWell - a repository for public domain images which are free for any use
10. Courthouses in Tennessee - indexed by section of the state
11. Digital Librarian - huge list of links to photo sources
12. Digital Library for Earth System Education - select resource type and begin finding some great earth science images
13. Earth & Space Images - Data Sets, Images, Movies, and Pictures
14. Earth Observatory - data and images
15. Earthguide Resources - image and movie resources
16. Earthshots - Satellite images from the USGS illustrating environmental change
17. Educational Pictures - many topics to select from (this site has a mixture of photos and drawings)
18. Environmental Education Station - public domain photo library
19. European Space Agency (ESA) Multimedia Gallery - images, videos, animations and goodies
20. FEMA - photo library
21. FreeFoto.com - one of the largest collections of free photographs for noncommercial use on the Internet.
22. FreeImages.com is an interesting UK site
23. Free Stock Photos - free images that are also royalty free
24. Free Teacher & Student Image Resources + More - Teacher and student approved -- download free photographs in multiple categories.� Great for slide shows, lesson plans, assignments and projects and adding images to your lesson plans
25. Gallery of the Open Frontier (University of Nebraska) - digital image library of photos, paintings, and drawings that pertain to the history of the American West
26. Great Lakes image collection - from the Environmental Protection Agency
27. Hawaiian Photo Gallery of Volcanoes
28. Historic Light Stations (U.S. Coast Guard) - every light station on file with the Coast Guard Historian's office
29. Hubble Space Telescope Photo Gallery
30. John Fitzgerald Kennedy - four part photo history
31. Junglewalk - Animal videos, sounds and images.
32. Landform Picture Gallery - from the About network (beware: lots of pop-ups)
33. Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Reading Room - selected sets of images on frequently requested topics, focusing on images for which there are no known restrictions
34. NASA Images
    1. NASA Dryden Research Aircraft Image Collection
    2. NASA Video Gallery
    3. Planetary Photojournal
35. National Biological Information Infrastructure: Digital Library - Click a category tab to browse image collections or click search button to search their whole library
36. National Geographic - photo gallery index
37. National Park Service - digital image archive
    1. National Park Service - historic photograph collection
38. National Science Foundation - image gallery (multimedia gallery)
39. National Severe Storms Laboratory Photo Album - Categories; Tornadoes, Weather Instruments, Sky Scenes, Lightning, and Hail
40. National Space Science Data Center - photo gallery
41. New York Public Library - online picture collection
42. NOAA Environmental Visualization Program - large archive of satellite images including storm events by year
43. NOAA Photo Library - Historic NWS Catalog of Images - Photo Library home page
44. Online Biology Book - every chapter is filled with great illustrations
45. Our Earth as Art - satellite images by continent
46. PD Photo - free, public domain photos
47. Perry-Castaeda Library - a selection of portraits of historical figures from the University of Texas at Austin - The images in this collection are in the public domain. You do not need to ask for permission to use these images
48. Pictures to use in PowerPoint Projects - links to subject related pictures to use in PowerPoint shows
49. Pics4Learning - a categorized list of photos found in the Pics4Learning photographic library collection.
50. Picture Galleries: from the About network
    1. Fossils
    2. Glaciers and Ice
    3. Landforms
    4. Minerals
    5. Rocks
    6. Geologic Features and Processes
    7. Geology and Society
    8. Free Geologic Wallpaper Pictures
51. Photo Gallery of the National Space Science Data Center
52. Photojournal - space related pictures from NASA's JPL
53. Plants of Hawaii - A collection of 6000+ copyright-free high-resolution images
54. Presidential Portraits
55. Public Domain Images - top quality high resolution public domain images, royalty free stock photos, not copyrighted, no rights reserved, explicitly placed in the public domain
56. Scientific Visualization Studio from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This is their image wall page.
57. Selected Civil War Photographs
58. Solar System Image Archive - from Windows to the Universe
59. 10 x 10 - One hundred words and pictures that define the time. This site is updated hourly with pictures from news sources around the world. The pictures provide links to the news sources related to them. Duplicate images are from the same wire service, but may be related to a different news story. This site has a history archive which goes back to 3:00 AM on November 4, 2004. Pictures at this site are in Flash and can not be copied, but photos associated with the news stories can be copied.
60. Training Reference has a set of royalty free pictures and photos for use in training materials, presentations and web sites. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
61. United States Mint - image library
62. U.S. Department of Energy - image gallery
63. U. S. Department of State - photo gallery
64. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's online digital media library - public domain still photos
65. U S Troops in Action - selected battle photos, 1942-1945
66. Visible Earth - a catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet
67. Welcome to the Planets - This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program.
68. Wikipedia Picture of the Day Archive - from May 2004 to the current month
69. Wunder Photos - great weather and outdoor photos posted at Weather Underground