Rollup of Royalty-Free Stuff
Since 2017, I have been collecting links to royalty free content (mostly still images) and these are compiled here. I commend Open Culture for providing me with most of these 21st-century sources.
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Art UK
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Boston Public Library Vinyl LP Collection
- The British Library [flickr]
- British Library Syliphone record label recordings from Guinea
- British Museum Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Florida Museum Open Vertebrae Project
- Getty Search Gateway for “Open Content” Images
- Internet Archive Book Images [flickr]
- Library of Congress: Free to Use and Reuse Sets
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access [GitHub] (they are working on an API) [update: they have released The Met Collection and MetPublications]
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Thomas J. Watson Library Digital Collections
- MoMA Exhibition History
- NASA on The Commons [flickr]
- National Institute for Educational Policy Research (Japan)
- The New York Public Library Digital Collections
- Old Book Illustrations
- Open Planet: World-class footage of our changing planet
- Paris Museums: Royalty-Free Images
- Prelinger Archives
- Princeton University’s Blue Mountain Project
- Public Domain Review: Collections
- rawpixel: The Best Public Domain Design Resources made available with a CC0 License
- Rijks Studio, Netherlands
- Smithsonian Open Access
- Stockified.com: #FREE (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos
- the league of moveable type: The revolution is here. The original, the first, the open-source font foundry.
- Yale Center for British Art
- Yale Photogrammar platform for 170,000 Great Depression Photographs