Image Resources for Teaching & Design

Best Practices for Accessible Images" at California State University, Northridge Universal Design Center.   This also includes a helpful section on image captions.

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources: A Guide for Authors, Adapters & Adopters of Openly Licensed Teaching and Learning.  Center for Media and Social Impact V1.0, (Feb 2021)  (PDF) 

Following are a few free or low cost sources of images that are either public domain, or that you have the right to use by becoming a member of a service or by subscribing to a service.

Please read each site’s Terms and Conditions regarding use and image credits.

1. Art Images for College Teaching

2. CDC Public Health Image Library

3. The Commons on Flickr

4. freeimages

5. Google Arts And Culture Institute

6. Image After

7. Image Quest (available for PCC faculty, staff and students for PCC-only non-commercial educational use)

8. NASA/JPL (more NASA images can be found here, also)

9. National Cancer Institute Visuals Online

10. National Park Service

11. National Science Foundation

12. New York Public Library Digital Collections: Public Domain Collections

13. Open Photo

14. Pexels

15. Pixabay

16. Unsplash

17. U.S. Geological Survey Maps, Imagery, and Publications