You'll find several links here to good image sources for presentations, projects, etc. Although most of the resources are copyright friendly, remember that you still need to cite them appropriately, even if you don't need to ask permission to use the images.
Tutorial
Finding Images on the Web: Boston University Libraries' excellent guide to copyright and fair use as related to images, along with numerous links to image sources.
General
YoTo Photo: Searches over a quarter million "free to use" images and graphics
Best Photos.US
Flickr Creative Commons:A good place for quality, general photos
Pics4Learning: Copyright friendly educational images
FreeFoto: Similar to Flickr
Video
Moving Image Archive
Encyclomedia
Education
US Government Photos/Graphics: "Most of these images and graphics are available for use in the public domain, and they may be used and reproduced without permission or fee. However, some images may be protected by license. We strongly recommend you thoroughly read the disclaimers on each site before use."
Wellcome: UK site with images covering "2000 years of human culture." Searchable by historic or contemporary images.
Smithsonian Photo Database: Subjects range from art to history to space
National Anthropological Archives
New York Public Library Digital Gallery Access to over 600,000 images
British Library Images Online
Subject Specific
Art
Internet Moving Image Archive: Thousands of digital movies ranging from animation to feature length film to news broadcasts and sports video
ArtServe: Art and architecture from the Mediterranean, Japan, India and Cambodia
Art Images for College Teaching: Royalty free art images from ancient to modern
Metropolitan Museum of Art
SILS Art Image Browser: Art, architecture and museum images from four collections
History
American Memory Collection: Historic images from the Library of Congress, organized by topic.
USDA Historical Photos
Images of American Political History
America from the Great Depression to WWI: Over 160,000 images from the American Memory Collection
Yale University Map Collection
American History in Motion: Historical film clips from 1903 to WW II
Authentic [US]History Center: Sound and images from Civil War to 2000
National Park Service: Images of National Parks, monuments, battlefields and historic sites
NYPL Picture Collection Online:
NYPL Digital Gallery: I'm not sure why they have two sites, but this is another excellent resource
Index of Medieval Medical Images
Geography
Geo-Images Project Collection of images useful for teaching geography
Math
Chaos Gallery: Images from U. of Maryland
Visualizations: "A collection of scientific visualizations by Jean-Francois Colonna. Topics include fractals, chaotic dynamics, quantum mechanics, fluid mechnaics, surface visualizations, natural phenomenon synthesis, signal processing, autostereograms, etc.
The Dance of Chance: Images of fractals in nature, with curriculum guide. From the Boston Museum of Science and Center for Polymer Studies.
Gallery of Mathematical Images: From Loughborough U.
Sprott's Fractal Gallery
Spanky Fractal Database
Symmetric Chaos
Visual Math Institute
3D Strange Attractors and Similar Objects
KnotPlot
Infinite Fractal Loop
Science
Science Images: From the Association for Science Education. Organized by topic.
Center for BioScience Image Bank
NASA Planetary PhotoJournal
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
History of Medicine: Images from the National Library of Medicine
Digital Images of Nature and the Environment: From the National Biological Information Infrastructure
GRIN: Great Images in NASA
ARKive: Images, sound files and video clips of endangered plant/animal species. Note Terms of Use.
Editorial Cartoons
Professional Cartoonists' Index: Archive of current editorial cartoons from around the world (remember, this is COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL! Use appropriately)
Versailles Treaty: Scroll down a bit for links to political cartoons
British Cartoon Archive: This is AMAZING
Hayes vs. Tilden
Learning Curve: Cool little tutorial from the UK on analyzing historical cartoons, with a few examples.
The Yellow Kid: 1895 archive from OSU
Hale Scrapbook: Georgian England
Lyonel Feininger: Early comic strips
Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon: 1780-1977
Dr. Seuss Went to War: Political cartoons
American Political Prints 1766-1876: Vast collection of Harper's Cartoon, from the LOC
Oliphant at the Library of Congress
Puck's Role in Gilded Age Politics: University of Virginia-
WWI Cartoons
Editorial Cartoons Database: Archives from Simon Frasier. Canadian cartoons from 1952-present.
BALDY 1946-1982: Archive from USG
Thomas Nast: From Ohio State
eHistory at OSU: Links to several cartoons
FDR Cartoon Archive
American Memory Collection: These will be repetitive
Chinese in California, 1850-1925
African American History
Immigration/American Expansion
Presidential Cartoons
Women's History
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