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Public Domain Image Repositories?
musicmaster asks: "If you search the net for free drawings you will find a lot of them, but usually they are free for private use only. I tried to look for drawings that are really free - that is public domain, but I didn't find very much. Wikipedia has some images - scanned from books with expired copyrights - but not much Could you help me further?"
This site here, http://www.freeimages.co.uk/ claims that you can use the pics for whatever you see fit.
No, I don't work there... They also say that you can't use them in collections, which I suppose is their way of saying that they don't want you taking all of their images and doing what they are doing with them... 8-)
Check out www.istockphoto.com. You can download a couple images for free, but after that you need to put up something like fifty cents an image to help with bandwidth and such. But once you download an image, it's yours to do with as you please. The images are of pretty good quality, and there's a decent selection.
This might well be the most amazing repository of images and documents on the planet.
c opr.html
They have different sizes of most images. In some cases they have very large (multi-megabyte) TIFF images.
Check this out, these are panorama images: (really beautiful) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pansubjindex1.html
It is really amazing what you can find: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
This is a good link too:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
Some are public domain and some are not
This link describes the many different copyrights and restrictions:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/195_
It's yours so enjoy it!
http://tinyurl.com/3t236