Image Databases & Resources 

Contemporary and historical news photographs dating back to 1826. Includes politics, sports, entertainment, current events, and other topics.

Photographs by Flickr users, offered for shared use under a Creative Commons license.

Collections of images from government organizations, such as the Bureau of Land Management, Defense Department, Energy Department, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Image library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. Broad coverage of visual culture from many time periods and areas of the world, including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, and more.

Public photography collections hosted by Flickr, including photographs from the Library of Congress, Oregon State University, National Media Museum, Powerhouse Museum.

Library of Congress's photographic collections, including Brady-Handy presidential portraits, daguerreotypes, Farm Security Administration photographs, National Photo Company early 20th-century photos of D.C., and more.

Millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Work from nationally and internationally renowned photographers active in the Pacific Northwest, including Art Hupy, Ernest Kassowitz, Kyo Koike, Frank Kunishige, Mary Randlett and others. From the UW Libraries Special Collections.

American photographs from the 1860s-1920s in the New York Public Library. Includes albumen, platinum and silver gelatin prints from photographers including Alexander Gardner, William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'Sullivan, Edward S. Curtis, and Man Ray.

Sample of contemporary and classical photography, including works by Immogen Cuningham, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, and many others. Presented as portfolios with biographical information about the photographer and a browsable set of images.

Collections of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, and the International Center of Photography, New York.

Hosted by Duke University Libraries, this 50,000 item collection documents the work of photographer William Gedney, covering the 1950s to 1989 and locations in the United States, India, and Europe.