Key Resource
- ARTstor database"A nonprofit resource that provides over 1.5 million digital images." Images may be downloaded and used for noncommercial, scholarly purposes and for noncommercial use in scholarly publications.
Find Images in Books
You can find many great pictures inside the books at Rogers Library, particularly the oversize books.
You can use the library's scanner (attached to a computer near the back of the computer area) to make a digital copy of the image, but remember to respect copyright.
Find Icons Online
- Icon FinderClipart
Great feature: you can change the background of each icon to clear, white, or black. - The Noun ProjectClipart.
A collection of "highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language." - Open Icon LibraryClipart
Over 10,000 icons. - 25 Icon Sets
Find Images Online
If you are using an image for educational purposes, then most of the time you can use any image even those that are copyrighted. More info here.
However, here are some good websites to find images that you can freely use:
- Wikimedia Commons
Mostly photos.
Check the license for each individual photo before you use it. - Compfight, a Flickr search tool Photos.
Limit your results to "Creative Commons" to view images that you can reuse. Check the license for each individual photo before you use it. - Educational Technology ClearinghouseMaps, clipart, and photos.
- LIFE magazine photo archivePhotos
Free for "personal and research purposes” but digitally watermarked. - Mapsof.netMaps, modern & antique
- Morgue FilePhotos
- VezzlePhotos
Check the license for each individual photo before you use it. - Whitehouse.govPhotos
All photos on whitehouse.gov are in the public domain or re-usable with attribution. - Medical Images
- Documenting the American SouthPhotos & more
Photos can be used for "private purposes or student or instructor use in a classroom or classroom assignment without prior permission as long as a proper citation is given."
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