Uncle Sam’s Photos at http://www.unclesamsphotos.com a detailed directory of the US government's public
domain image galleries
TotallyFreeImages.com - Totally free public-domain images - This is the
largest government photo archive on the Internet with more than 494,000
high-resolution, professional-grade, royalty-free images, 100%
public-domain and acceptable for use with Wikipedia. (collection from
government sources)
Aerial
Photos and Maps - http://terraserver-usa.com/default.aspx
- free
public access to a vast data store of maps and aerial photographs of the
United States Geological Survey originating from USGS.
{{PD-USGov-USGS}} may apply to such images.
The Congressional Pictorial Directory - also available in book form.
Government Graphics at http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml - A portal to US government images and photos.
"Most of these images and graphics are available for use in the
public domain"
History
of Medicine at the National Library of
Medicine. Most but not all of the exhibitions are PD. Clicking on
"Metadata" near the bottom of the page will generate a popup
window with information that includes rights usage for each page.
MedPix
Medical Image Database
Hosting by Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The terms
of use of the site state that the original submitter may retain copyright.
Nearly all of the submitters are U.S. government physicians. The status of
the submitter is available to verify that an individual image is in the
public domain.
National Atlas Maps
Collection at http://nationalatlas.gov Lots of .GIF image maps, such as Congressional
District maps, all in the public domain.
National Cancer Institute
Biomedical, Microscope and Science Images at http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/ Great resource
for electron microscopy and histological images. Includes general
biomedical and science-related images, cancer-specific scientific and
patient care-related images, and portraits of directors and staff of the
National Cancer Institute.
Naval
History – U.S. Department of the Navy
- Naval Historical Center Photographic Section
NOAA
Photo Library –
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency
Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences
U.S.
Antarctic Program Photo Library
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at http://images.usace.army.mil/main.html - United States Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual
Library
U.S. Census Bureau Photo Services - media "are free to use in news media and public
information products" but are not in the public domain. Photo credit
is requested, commercial use not allowed; see site for license terms.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources
Conservation Service Photo Gallery
USDA Online Photography Center
USDA
Agriculture Research Service Image gallery A "complimentary source of high-quality digital
photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service
U.S. Department of Defense photos
http://www.defenseimagery.mil/ -
US Department of Defense Visual Information Center (high-resolution US
military imagery) See also http://www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/ - Current US Department of Defense publicly released
images
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at http://images.fws.gov/ - US Fish and Wildlife Service imagery
U.S. Government Documents at http://www.archive.org/details/USGovernmentDocuments Government
Documents scanned by the Internet Archive
U.S.
Library of Congress digital image archive. (Some images are still under copyright, so caveat emptor.)
U.S.
National Park Service Historic Photograph Collection
U.S. Senate - http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov
- Congressional sites have a broad variety of public domain images,
especially photographs of representatives and senators.
ARCHIVE.ORG U.S. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
The Archive.org U.S. Government
Documents Collection
is entirely in the public domain and can sometimes produce surprisingly good
illustrations. See the
- For technical drawings see the U.S. Patents
and Trademarks subsection, and search on subjects of interest using the
search box at left. All public domain.
The Archive.org National Security Internet Archives contain the following sub-collections:
Central Intelligence Agency Collection
(110,995 items)
FBI Files (more than
1,500 dossiers on celebrities released under Freedom of Information Act
and now in the public domain
JFK Assassination Files – The Harold Weisberg Collection (5,704 items)
MKULTRA Files (1,778
items) document the U.S. government's experiments in mind control from World War II to the 1970s.
Nazi War Crimes Files a group of documents collected by the U.S. military services before, during and after World War II.
Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.)
was the central intelligence agency of the U.S. government during World War II, headed by William "Wild Bill" Donovan. This archive contains many of its operational records. The O.S.S. was replaced by CIA after 1947.
September 11 Collection (6,890
items) offers thousands of government documents, videos, audio and photos used by U.S. government investigators during the days that followed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
STARGATE Files (12,106
items) documents U.S. government experiments in remote viewing and psychic espionage U.S. State Department Collection (965,859
items) contains thousands of diplomatic cables
VENONA Collection (2,689
items) documents Cold War efforts to identify Russian sleeper agents and Atomic spies within the United States by breaking the codes and ciphers used by Russian embassies during World War II
