Many of the websites listed on the right will give you opportunities to search through images and easily see the licenses and copyright applied to them.
Convenient integrated access to Creative Commons licensed content (images, media, music) provided by search engines and organizations such as Flickr, YouTube, Wikimedia, Google Images, Pixabay, and others.
This section of Flickr offers images that are available under a Creative Commons license and also explains the different types of Creative Commons licenses. You can also search for Creative Commons-licensed images on Flickr by going to the advanced search link in the upper right hand corner of the page and checking the appropriate boxes in the Creative Commons section at the bottom of the advanced search page.
This site offers fully searchable access to media, including images, sounds and videos, that has been uploaded by users, mostly for use on Wikipedia. Most of the content is available under some sort of Creative Commons license and licensing information is clearly provided at the bottom of each piece of media's individual page.
The Wellcome Library of Medical History provides images on themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science. Many of the images have creative commons licenses allowing re-use.
400,000+ images from the Museum's collections. Some images may be used freely for non-commercial scholarly purposes; look for an "OASC" under the image to verify.
The Smithsonian provides open access to more than 2.8 million images, videos, and other digital assets from its collections, which have been released into the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. Select the Open Access Media checkbox under the Search box to filter on those collections.
Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955; from the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
This site indexes and searches millions of freely licensed photos, from many sources, and presents them in an integrated search. Most require an attribution, so check the terms of use listed by the original source.
MorgueFile offers over 350,00 images free for any use, including commercial. If you do not alter the images you must credit the original creators, and you can not claim images used in their original state as your own. See details of use under their licensing terms.
Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are tagged, searchable and relatively easy to discover through their discover pages.
Unsplash offers photos licensed under Creative Commons Zero, which means you can copy, modify, distribute, and use the photos for free, including for commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer or Unsplash.
This collection is a disability-led effort to provide free and inclusive stock photos shot from our own perspective, featuring disabled BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) across the Pacific Northwest.