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?"

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Check people's web pages?

[freshmkr]

Surely lots of people out there have photo archives they wouldn't mind sharing. For instance, to self-link, help yourself to some robots.

It would be nice if there were a free content mindset out there as pervasive as the free/open source mindset is. It's not obvious, really, for someone to release their goofy pics under a permissive license. I'm not certain how or if it would ever catch on, though years ago I was more or less saying the same thing about open source.

As for the quality of pics taken by average Joes with digital cameras--that's another matter!

--Tom