Icons & Images
- Wikimedia Commons: Images: Public domain and freely licensed educational media content (images, sound, and video clips).
- Library of Congress (LOC) Free to Use and Reuse Sets: Features items from the LOC digital collections; content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. Each set of content is based on a theme and is first featured on the Library’s home page.
- WOCinTech (Women of Color in Tech) : #WOCinTech started in 2015 to provide women of color and non-binary people of color a safe space to connect and discuss issues in the tech industry that are important to them. “Since then, we have expanded into a grassroots initiative that aims to connect women of color and non-binary people of color to career and skills-building opportunities in tech.”
- Flickr: The Commons: The Commons was launched on January 16 2008 in partnership with the Library of Congress with two main objectives: “increase access to publicly-held photography collections”, and “provide a way for the general public to contribute information and knowledge.”
- Public Domain Images: “Discover original artworks from our own library of public domain books and chromolithographs. We have scanned and digitally enhanced these art prints into high resolution, and they are available to download under the CC0 license”
- The New York Public Library Digital Photography Collections: From The New York Public Library‘s collections, digital photograph collections containing more than 800,000 digitized items. Textual descriptions provide context for the materials “to inspire people to use and reuse the media and data on offer there to advance knowledge and create new works.”
- PICNOI: “We are a coop of stock image photography. We recognize that most other free stock image sites have very few or no images of people of color. We sought out to create a space where publishers, bloggers, website owners, marketers, designers, graphic artists, advertisers and the like can easily search and find diverse multi-racial images.” CC-BY.
- Images of Empowerment: A free library of images celebrating women’s lives and their work in 12 countries around the world. CC-BY-NC.
- Nappy: “High-resolution freely-licensed photos of black and brown people for use by startups, brands, agencies, and the public. Created to bring diversity and cultural representation into the photography community.” CC0
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HEIR (Historic Environment Image Resource: At the University of Oxford “contains digitised historic photographic images from all over the world dating from the late nineteenth century onwards. HEIR’s core images come from lantern slide and glass plate negatives held in college, library, museum and departmental collections within the University of Oxford. New resources are being added all the time, including collections from outside the University.” HEIR’s mission is to keyword the images and rephotograph them in their modern settings so they can be used by researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to track changes to sites, monuments, landscapes and societies over time. CC BY-SA
- Noun Project: Icon curated collection by designers from over one-hundred countries that “celebrate diversity and represent a more inclusive world.”
- Icons8: “Download design elements for free: icons, photos, vector illustrations, and music for your videos. All the assets made by designers”
- Unsplash: Grants irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use their photos freely, including for commercial purposes license
- Smithsonian Open Access Images: Includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
- Disabled And Here: Stock images of disabled Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC); created by a disability justice advocate and Affect, a disability initiative in Portland, Oregon.
- The Big Cartoon Wiki: The Big Cartoon Wiki is an encyclopedia dedicated to collecting expansion scenes throughout media; currently houses over 60k images across 609 articles; includes scenes from cartoons, comics and games. Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike unless otherwise noted.
- The Gender Spectrum Collection: “The Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. This collection aims to help media better represent members of these communities as people not necessarily defined by their gender identities—people with careers, relationships, talents, passions, and home lives.” CC-BY-NC-ND
- Pixabay: All of the images you will find in this repository can be reused, modified, and shared for free | Pixabay license.
