We curate collections of images, books, audio and film, shining a light on curiosities and wonders from a wide range of online archives. Leaning toward the surprising, the strange, and the beautiful, we hope to provide an ever-growing cabinet of curiosities for the digital age

Book Images. Royalty free stock photos. All pictures are free for commercial and personal use.

Explore our hand-picked collection of 10,742 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week.

The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. Each set of content is based on a theme and is first featured on the Library's home page. These sets are just a small sample of the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The digital collections comprise millions of items including books, newspapers, manuscripts, prints and photos, maps, musical scores, films, sound recordings and more.

Famous Literary Locales, Visualized by Gwen Glazer Public domain images from Digital Collections that remind us of classic books.

Published to celebrate 10 years of The Public Domain Review, this very special book of images gathers over 500 prints, paintings, illustrations, sketches, photographs, doodles, and everything in between, exploring connections across more than ...

The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in any way, including commercial use. ... Browse the latest additions to our collection of book images, featuring out of copyright pictures.

Old Book Illustrations offers a wide range of public domain, royalty-free restored images scanned from old books. Searchable galleries include animals, plants, etc.

Pictures and collections from Classic Books which are now in the public domain. They're out of copyright, so you are free to use them in any you'd like.

The Getty provides access to more than 160,000 images of digitized artwork from its collections that are in the public domain. This includes photos, paintings, drawings, maps, text and manuscripts, and other artifacts. ... Google Books provides full-text access to more than 10 million books ...

Browse the latest additions to our collection of public domain images from books. Features out of copyright, royalty free pictures.

Celebrating the public domain "in all its abundance and variety," this online journal includes essays as well as collections of images, books, audio and film.

Includes images (mostly prints and drawings) from old magazines, books, and other print media, which are all public domain in the United States.

Answer (1 of 9): The work will not be in the public domain until all the contributors have been deceased for long enough. For example, a modern edition of Grimms Fairy Tales is not in the public domain because everything other than the text (the page layout, chapter headings, illustrations, footn...

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New York Public Library. Over 700,000 images scanned from books. Including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. There is a per-image usage fee even for public domain images.

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