Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web

Documentation of natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the U.S. From University of Chicago.

Digitized Special Collections material. High res images may be purchased. Must be licensed for reproduction.

"Collection of images, videos, and animations that can be used to enhance lecture or lab presentations...The American Society for Microbiology grants the public nonexclusive rights to copy, distribute, adapt or display under a Creative Commons Attribution – Noncommercial – NoDerivatives 4.0 International license."

From 1968 to 1971 Jewton Ancarrow documented more than 400 species of wildflowers along the banks of the James River. From Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries.

3-d images created by the National Art and Space Museum. Note conditions of CC license.

he history of science, technology, engineering, and medicine in 50,000 images from the collections of several Brtiish science museums. Includes industrial design. Free to use.

Free open access collections, most from educational institutions. Covers a wide range of topics, including art, history, and science. Browse here by type of collection.

Project to identify and catalog natural history illustrations from digitized historical books. Public domain images.

Public domain images organized by category.

Photos taken by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor. Images, text, or other content downloaded from the collection may be freely used for non-profit educational and research purposes.

Includes many public domain images in subject based albums.

Highlights from the School of Engineering image collection. May be downloaded.

Rights to images may vary by source. Please see the information attached to the image.

3-d models of fossils from site in Chile, from the Smithsonian. Note conditions of CC license.

3-d models created from images generated by the Chandra Observatory. Note conditions of CC license.

3-d models from the National Museum of Natural History. Note conditions of CC license.

Collection of glass invertebrates created by renowned 19th century glass artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka. From Cornell Library.

Free image library of science and nature images from Australian science research organization. Images are available through Creative Commons license.

3-d models from the Electricity Collections of the National Museum of American History. Note conditions of CC license.

Illustrations from public domain books. Freely available.

Scientific and medical illustrations from historical books. Images are public domain and appear to be freely available for download.

Collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences. Collection is housed at the University of Utah Willard J. Marriott Digital Library.

From the U. S. National Library of Medicine. Images may be used for educational purposes.

3-d models of fossils from the National Museum of Natural History. Note conditions of CC license.

"an open-source international exhibition program that showcases the incredible variety of light-based science being researched today..." Images and captions may be used freely for educational purposes.

London-based picture library specialising in historical pictures and vintage imagery. Features both free public domain images and copyrighted images for which you must pay. Registration is required.

Provides access to images and records across Yale's cultural heritage collections. Certain public domain images may be used freely. Check individual records.

Representative group of historical artifacts from Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries.

Collaborative effort among the world's leading medical libraries to digitize historical medical literature now in the public domain. Includes films as well as books, pamphlets, and more. freely available resource.

Images are free to use for educational or informational purposes, with acknowledgement.

3-d models of fossils from the National Museum of Natural History. Note conditions of CC license.

IHM includes image files of a wide variety of visual media including fine art, photographs, engravings, and posters that illustrate the social and historical aspects of medicine dating from the 15th to 21st century.

National Weather Service Collection Catalog of Images. Most of the images are in the public domain and may be freely used with credit. Those with copyright restrictions will have a notice.

From the National Institutes of Health: "We cannot grant permissions to use images. Copyright remains with the authors or the journal. A link to the copyright license type may be found below the individual Open-i image on the detailed view page. If copyright restrictions for an image are not specified or are unclear, please contact the journal that published the image."

"Dr. Dennis Page of the Department of Oral Pathology (now Oral Diagnostic Sciences) of the VCU School of Dentistry developed this collection of images to help students learn about the most common abnormalities of the oral cavity."

"A tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere." Images are posted by users for sharing with others.

Important collection of 19th-century machine elements held by Cornell University’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

Images and Motion footage of medicine, astronomy, technology, environmental studies, botany, zoology and more. Images must be licensed from the company.

Images may be used freely for non-commercial purposes. Includes works within the broad categories of Art & Design, History & Culture, and Science & Technology.

Images from the Museum of Technology in Stockholm.

Archive of photographs dating back to the 1870s and taken by USGS scientists as part of their field studies. U.S. Government photos so in the public domain and free to use.

Site from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Department of Botany. Includes photographs and botanical art. Large images available for free download.

One of the unique collections at the museum is that of the skeletons, slides, pictures, books, and research papers associated with the Galápagos Islands. Images, text, or other content downloaded from the collection may be freely used for non-profit educational and research purposes.

Images, text, or other content downloaded from the collection may be freely used for non-profit educational and research purposes.

Images may be downloaded with a Creative Commons license. Please see license for your rights.

Collection from Texas A&M University Libraries. Images may still be under copyright -- see individual records.

"Digitized from the classic works of the German veterinary anatomists, Wilhelm Ellenberger and Hermann Baum, and medical illustrator, Hermann Dittrich." Published in 1898 and 1911 through 1925, all entitled Handbuch der Anatomie der Tiere für Künstler. Public domain images from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Project "will enable access to, and vastly multiply the use use, astronomy image resources."

History of science images. Commercial vendor but over 100,000 public domain images are freely available on the site.

Freely available images, including such resources as the United States National Archives. Licensing varies according to rights owner.