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Public Domain Images

If you are planning to show copyright images within the confines of your classroom then your usage more than likely falls within the scope of educational “fair use.” Mind you, more and more educators are making their (or their students) presentations available online, and this practice raises some important copyright issues. If you make your PowerPoint publicly accessible on the Internet without the express written permission of the authors of the copyrighted images,
then you have most likely infringed on copyright protection.

To help you avoid infringing on copyright protection, we have prepared an extensive list of Internet sources for public domain images, with an eye towards the humanities. Please check individual images you find at these sites to determine if there are any no restrictions on usage :

• American Memory (Library of Congress) - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
  • America from the Great Depression to World War II - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
  • Civil War Photographs - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
  • Daguerreotype Portraits and Views 1839-1864 - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html
• Presidential Portraits - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/preshome.html
• Art Images for College Teaching - http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/index.html
• Archival Research Catalog (National Archives) - http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/index.html
• Art & Architecture (Art Serve) - http://rubens.anu.edu.au/
• Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/
• Department of Interior Photo Library - http://www.doi.gov/photos/gallery.html
• Discovery School - http://school.discovery.com/clipart/
• Digital Library System - http://images.fws.gov/
• Environmental Education System - http://web.centre.edu/enviro/Photos_files/Photos.htm
• Flickr - http://flickr.com
• FreePhoto.com - http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
• FreeImages.com - http://www.freeimages.com/photos/
• Free Stock Photos - http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
• USA.gov - http://www.usa.gov/
• Geek Philosopher - http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/photos.htm
• Graphic Maps.com - http://www.graphicmaps.com/clipart.htm
• Great Images in NASA - http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/
• Image After - http://www.imageafter.com/
• Images of American Political History - http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/
• Map and Aerial Photography - http://libweb.uoregon.edu/map/
• Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org/
• National Archives & Records Administration - http://www.nara.gov
• Picturing the Century: 100 Years of Photography - http://www.nara.gov/exhall/picturing_the_century/home.html
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery - http://www.nypl.org/digital/
• Pics for Learning - http://pics4learning.com/
• Public Domain Images for Use in Multimedia Projects and Web Pages - http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/cfimages.html
• Public Domain Media - http://web4j1.lane.edu/libraryservices/mediainst/graphicsguide.html
• Social Science Data Lab - http://socsci.colorado.edu/GIF/
• U.S. Air Force Photos - http://www.af.mil/photos/
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - http://images.usace.army.mil/main.html
• U.S. Department of Defense (multimedia) - http://www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/
• U.S. Federal Government Public Domain Images - http://stellar-one.com/public/us_federal_government_public_domain_images.htm
• U.S. Navy Images http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org11-2.htm
• Wikipedia Public Domain Image Sources - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources