NOTE: not all images are public domain

ARC Art Renewal Center - large on-line Museum, with hundreds of thousands of oversized high quality images of all the known works of the greatest painters and sculptors in human history, cross referenced to the largest encyclopedic online art reference library of historical texts, essays, biographies and articles.

Olga's Gallery -   large and comprehensive online collection. Over 10,000 works of art. Dedicated to bringing you quality information about artists and their artwork from all around the world.  

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**See the Art History page under Recommended Web Pages for more Art Images***

NOTE: not all images are public domain

Amphibian Research and and Monitoring Initiative - contains hundreds of images of amphibians.

Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries  - Links to 12 US Government collections with images in the public domain.

CARLI Digital Collections - Digital collections created by member libraries of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries of Illinois (CARLI).

Denver Museum of Naure & Science - an archieve of over 6,000 images.

Every Stock Photo - We are a search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo's license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free, without advertising, and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.

Flickr.com - online photo managment and sharing application

Morgue File - Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not!

NASA Images - browse images from NASA

National Park Service Digital Image Archives - contains public domain digital images of national parks, monuments, historic sites, and related areas.

NYPL Digital Gallery - provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

Open Clip Art Library - Clip art images available for downloading and remixing; all images are in the public domain.

Open Photo - Moderated photo community with the goal of uniting image consumers and producers through friendly Creative Commons licensing (Royalty-free images, many of which are free).

Photographic Libraries - a unique resources that provides a broad range of visual solutions to enhance the creative process.

Picsearch - Search the web for images. An image search service with more than 3,000,000,000 pictures.

Pixel Perfect Digital - has a growing collection of images and textures. Registration allows you to upload to your own personal gallery. A search function allows searching within one or more category.

Stock.xchng - FREE royalty-free images (Requires sign-up).

United States Fish & Wildlife Service Digital Library - contains public domain images of landscapes, plants, and wildlife.

USDA On Line Photography Center - if you need images of cattle, racehorses or other farm animals.

Wellcome Images – More than 100,000 images of medicine, natural science, and human culture.

Wikimedia Commons - a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone.

Jackson Pollock - Just try it!

PhotoFunia - lets you upload an image and they insert it into a number of scenario. Put your art on a billboard or your face in a museum!

NOTE: not all sounds are public domain

Film Music by Moby - The artist Moby has made his music available for "independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short." Free, but registration required.

FlaskKit - The world's largest Flash resource site.

Free Media Goo - Free Images, Royalty Free Images, Really Free ..... No Really! ... FREE!

The Free Sound Project -  A collaborative database of Creative Commons licenced sounds.

FXhome - Provides the following sound effects downloads free of charge for you to use in your movies.

Internet Audio Archive - Audio and MP3 library containing over 200,000 free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.

Jamendo - Free music sharing site based in Europe. Artists upload their music with Creative Commons licenses, so some may be available for use in your projects. Free, but registration required.

Looperman - A Free pro audio community for musicians, film and video producers, djs and multi media designers.

Media College.com Free Sound Effects - All these sound effects are free to download and use. Files that are labelled Full Permission have been recorded by our staff and released without any conditions except that you can't sell or redistribute them. Apart from that, you can use these FX in any video or audio project, non-profit or commercial.

Musopen - Recorded public domain music.

Opsound - Opsound pool using a copyleft license developed by Creative Commons. Listeners are invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine.

PacDV Free Sound Effects - You may use the sound effects on this web site free of charge in your video, film, audio and multimedia productions (but do not re-sell them or post on a web site for download).

Public Domain Music - Lists of public domain music.

Sound Source - German site offering royalty-free sounds in a variety of file formats.

NOTE: not all films/movie/television shows are public domain

Hulu.com - an online video service that offers hit TV shows

IMDb The Internet Movie Database - an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media.

Movie Clips - Free collection; login optional. Contains over 12,000 clips from popular movies. Most clips can be embedded into blogs and websites.

Netflix - the world's leading Internet subscription service for enjoying movies and TV shows.

Prelinger Archive - 2,000 videos from hundreds of important US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions.

YouTube - a place to discover, watch, upload and share videos.

Vimeo - Video-sharing social networking site.

NOTE: not all textures are public domain

Absolute Background Textures Archive - Now with 5740 seamlessly tiling, attractive background textures for use in web pages, graphical software or on your desktop. Sorted by color and motif. Fully customizable!

Imageafter - has 20,000 images or textures available. There are two drop-down menus (one for textures, one for images) for category browsing. Imageafter allows you to use their images on printed material for resale.

Pixel Perfect Digital - has a growing collection of images and textures. Registration allows you to upload to your own personal gallery. A search function allows searching within one or more category.

Texture Library - Free surfaces for 3ds Max, LightWave