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Welcome to Reusable Art!

Free Vintage Images

Reusable Art has a collection of copyright free images chosen for crafters by a crafter. These free vintage drawings, paintings, and illustrations have been rescued from old print materials in the hopes that a new generation of artists and art lovers can enjoy them.

All of the images appearing on this site are copyright free and in the public domain in the United States, in countries that are part of the Berne Convention and any country that grants copyrights to artists up to 70 years after their death or 120 after publication when the artist is unknown. They can be used for anything you wish with no restrictions. (You can read more about this on our About Us page.)

Information is provided with each vintage image to research the copyright status in other countries as well as to honor the artists who created them.

Reusable Art has categorized all of the public domain and free vintage images appearing on this site to make them easier for crafters to find. We are excited to be able to honor the original artists as well as let their art enjoy a new purpose.

Let the crafting begin!

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Welcome to Reusable Art! Reusable Art has a collection of copyright free images chosen for crafters by a crafter. These free vintage drawings, paintings, and illustrations have been rescued from old print materials in the hopes that a new generation of artists and art lovers can enjoy them.

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Cartoonists Need You! Our profession is endangered! Newspapers are dropping their editorial pages! Editorial Cartoonists still depend on newspapers, but papers are dropping national editorial content now, in great numbers. Don’t let our profession die. You can help our profession to survive wit…

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Best Historical Stock Photos and Where to Find Them

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Best Historical Stock Photos and Where to Find Them

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If you're here, it's because you are after historical stock photos and vintage stock photos. Be it photos of the World War II for a documentary project or casual snaps of social life in the 1950s for a retro marketing campaign, there are various reasons why you might need this kind of imagery, and soon you will learn they are not as easily found, nor are that simply used.

While there are various online hubs to find historical images, they're not as many as there are for regular, modern stock imagery. Finding variety and specific themed photos can be difficult if you don't know where to look. Good sources sell Royalty-free stock photos that not only grant quality but also legal coverage in your intended use, and we bring you the best of them all! You can search right here for awesome historical visual content from Getty Images, the company with one of the world's largest licensable photographic archives! Give it a try!

You will also find free images with a historical and vintage theme. But while popular knowledge leads to believe all old photos have no copyright and are free to do as you please, that's certainly not always the case. We will help you understand the fine print in copyright, Public Domain and Creative Commons license regarding vintage stock photos.

In the end, you will be armed with everything you need to know to find, download and safely use the best historical stock images for your projects.

The Rich World of Historical Photography

The theme "historical photos" seems narrow, but it is actually very broad. Considering the oldest surviving photograph dates from 1826/1827, there are about two centuries of photographic archives documenting from relevant historical events -like the U.S civil war, the protests of the hippie movement or the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of England-, to mundane scenes of daily life like youngsters dancing rock'n'roll, workers at a big oil rig, the construction of the Empire State building or vintage cars.

There are many institutions, organizations, private collectors and companies that dedicate to curate and maintain these archives, applying expertise and latest technologies to organize them into categories and make them easier to navigate.

However, not all of them are accessible to the public, not all are online, and not all are available to use for a commercial purpose (you will learn more about this in our section about licenses and usage).

All this sums up to the conclusion that historical and vintage stock photos can be a lot more varied than you think, and have a wide potential to be exploited in your designs. If you know where to find them and how to use them accurately, of course.

The Best Historical Stock Photo Archives

It will come as no surprise that the best places to get historical photos are paid options. Some stock photography agencies invest in vintage archives of great commercial and editorial value -with images which copyright remains active despite how old they might be- and offer its photos under a license of use for a fixed fee. Here's some of the best:

Getty Images

Getty Images is one of the world's largest and most renowned stock photography agencies in the world. And they excel in historical and vintage imagery. Their library includes millions of photos from prestigious and unique collections like the Hulton Press Library, Retrofile archive or Archive Photos of New York, to name a few. They now also distribute all of Corbis (former stock photo agency founded by Bill Gates) historical archives in four continents except for Asia as well. You can do a quick search to see what kind of photos they have right now, using our search feature below:

This agency sells photos under Rights Managed license, with pricing varying according to the intended use, the medium and the conditions, between a couple hundred and up to thousands of dollars. Some of their editorial content is also available under Ultrapacks deal -that cover Royalty-free images and videos too-, which has a custom license enabling the use of photos for editorial (non-commercial) projects with some limitations and comes at fixed fees according to image resolution, saving you hundreds of dollars compared to single image purchase.

Visit Getty Images website to explore their image premium quality and huge historical catalogue. And do check out Ultrapacks to find the best deal in pricing.

Alamy Historical Archives

Alamy is a well-established stock photography agency. As in, it's about to celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2019, well-established. Their archival collections are part of their 160 million images' library and an offer they are well-known for, resulting in a very reputable and rich source to find historical images for different purposes.

Historical relevant archives like the Chronicle or the World History Archive are just some of the collections that build up this offer with close to 2 million historic pictures in total, all ready to download and use under a Rights Managed license priced according to the intended use between $20 and $200 each.

Their modern website includes a very user-friendly and advanced search tool as well as curated galleries for easy discovery of the latest and most popular content, that includes historical archives, current editorial imagery and also creative pictures for commercial use.
Explore Alamy's Historical Stock Photo Collections right here.
Shutterstock Editorial

Shutterstock is one of the biggest and most popular online stock photo agencies in the market. The Shutterstock Editorial library used to be of restringed access for premium members but is now open to all customers. They have a very robust offer, built on the base of important archives from renowned photographers as well as curated selections from partners like the Arts Archive, Kobal, PMC Archival or BFA collections.

Their historical stock photos library includes over 40 million photos on the most various topics, from social events to first-class entertainment galas, from photojournalistic shots to sports imagery, and beyond. All these images are sold under Editorial license and on demand, by the unit or with download packs that save you almost half of the single purchase price.
See Shutterstock Editorial collection here.
Vintage Med Stock

Vintage Med Stock is a very specific photography collection of antique and vintage medical stock images. Owned by photographer and designer Mark Strozier, it offers hundreds of very interesting photos and illustrations centred in the medicine topic from days past, all under a royalty-free license and available on demand for between $7 and $59.

The Best Free Stock Photos with Historical Theme

If you don't want (or can't right now) spend money on historical photography, don't despair. There are many sources to download vintage and old photos for free, with different copyright status and permitted uses. Here is a list of the best around, but do read our section about licenses and usage explained below for more info on how to work with these free photos.

Pond5 The Public Domain Project

Pond5 is a stock footage specialised agency, but they offer a wonderful collection of hundreds of thousands of historical and vintage media files in their Public Domain collection, spanning over a century of history and mixing famous landmarks, cities and people with curious vintage art, random portraits and documentary shots.

As you guessed, all these files -that include over 60,000 photos- are Public Domain images. This means they are not subject to copyright and are free to use in any way.

Flickr Commons

Photo sharing platform Flickr developed a very cool archive section named The Commons, where institutions can opt to share their collections under Public Domain for everyone to see, download and use. The long list of organizations adhering to The Commons includes the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, NASA, the British Library, the Museum of Photographic Arts, and many important entities from all over the world.

While they are Public Domain images for various reasons, and therefore technically free to use, each of these institutions establishes accepted uses for their photos, and ultimately it is up to you (the end user) to research whether or not any copyright applies and how can you or can you not use the image according to that.

New Old Stock

New Old Stock is a Tumblr page by product designer Cole Townsend, and what it offers is a selection of around 1500 historical and vintage, free stock photos curated by Townsend himself from the large archives of Flickr Commons. In addition, he offers pro photo packs where he optimizes these old photographs delivering high-resolution images suitable professional use.

The photos he handpicks are available for free, but Flickr Commons' restrictions and considerations about usage apply, and each photo might have different limitations according to from which archive it proceeds.

Paris Musées Collections

Paris Musées is an entity that groups 14 public museums in Paris, and they have released a catalogue with over 100,000 of their curated artwork in digital format, under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license, making it available for everyone to download and use in all kind of projects, including commercially, free of charge.
The collection includes over 60,000 historical photographs of Paris and France, taken by some of the most renowned French photographers of their times.

Historical Stock Photos, Copyright and Licenses

When you think about historical photography or vintage pictures, you think of photos that were taken many years -or decades, or even a century- ago. If you have a general idea of how copyright works, you might know that it expires after a certain period of time (this is different for every country, and may change depending on when the work was created and which law was running at that time).

This leads many to believe all historical stock photos are in the Public Domain due to "no known copyright". But that's not the case. In many cases, restrictions will apply. And we'll explain to you why.

Historical Value Stock Photos in Private Collections

You read above that Getty Images and Alamy both sell stock photos of historical content, even though many of them were created a long time ago. This is because they are part of historical archives of private collectors, that acquired the copyright and prolonged it. Some of the most emblematic and sought-after photos of worldwide events in the past century are subject to copyright and licensed under a paid model. You cannot use these photos for free.

The Catches in Public Domain Terms

For a large chunk of the historical photographs out there, you would be right in assuming they are under the Public Domain. But do you know there are different reasons for a photo to have this label? Copyright expiring is only one of them.

An image can fall under Public Domain due to not meeting the legal requirements for copyright protection, or after being voluntarily submitted as copyright-free by its legal owner, or due to copyright information not being found. In this latter example is where the catch lies.

Individuals, entities and private parties can claim to not having found copyright data for a piece of work, and thus placing it in the Public Domain. But most of them do not take responsibility in the case they were wrong.

In most countries, the law says if you're using a photo without due authorization you're guilty of copyright infringement. Whether you were aware or not, does not eliminate the infringement. In short: even if someone else made the mistake of offering a picture as under Public Domain when it wasn't, you'll be held responsible for using it.

For this reason, you are to always conduct your own research to clear copyright information before using a photo, even an old historical one. Especially if you're going to use it in commercial projects. Which is what many institutions recommend to do.

You can avoid this hassle of course, by licensing vintage photos from serious agencies or otherwise using reliable free sources like the ones listed above.

The Hidden Risk in Creative Commons License

You may also find some historical archive photos coming with a form of Creative Commons license. Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that developed contractual agreements for artists to offer their work for free but regulating the potential uses. There are various license models with different levels of restrictions. Creative Commons Zero (CC0 for short) is one of the most unrestricted ones, pretty similar to Public Domain with the exception that pictures with this license do have copyright.

While this licensing model is very serious and convenient, there is one big problem: you must know the source for the image and be absolutely sure the copyright owner is who authorised its free usage. Should this not be the case (say, if the person who offered the photo under CC0 is not the legal owner), the license is invalid and the copyright holder can go after you for infringement.

For this reason, you have to also do a thorough background check for Creative Commons photos before using them in commercial work. And this is why it's better to license historical photos from prestigious agencies.

Use Historical and Vintage Stock Photos in your Creative and Editorial Work

Now you know all there is to know about how historical photo archives work, you can tap on the value of these vintage and documentary relevant pictures in the best possible way.

Licensing them Royalty Free or Rights Managed, via:

Or for free, at:

Note: Do remember to research for copyright status before using free photos!

We hope you find the exact historical photos and vintage, high-quality images you are looking for and look forward to seeing your beautiful designs come to life!

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Best Historical Stock Photos and Where to Find Them

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If you're here, it's because you are after historical stock photos and vintage stock photos. Be it photos of the World War II for a documentary project or casual snaps of social life in the 1950s for a retro marketing campaign, there are various reasons why you might need this kind of imagery, and soon you will learn they are not as easily found, nor are that simply used.

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24,000 Vintage Cartoons from the Library of Congress Illustrate the History of This Modern Art Form (1780-1977)

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24,000 Vintage Cartoons from the Library of Congress Illustrate the History of This Modern Art Form (1780-1977)

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Historically speaking, what we call cartoons began as artifacts of print culture, and as such, of modernity. Before the widespread availability of printed texts, the word "cartoon" referred to a sketch, an artist's mock-up of a greater work. The word literally meant "a very large sheet of paper," since Renaissance cartones "were the same size as the intended painting and were created to transfer the image," as one art historian notes (with some very elegant examples). So when and how did the cartoon become shorthand for illustrated comic editorials?

Not until the late 18th century, though the origins of the form are often traced to another Italian art, the caricatura, satirical doodles favored by such masters as Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

These, writes the Cartoon Museum, "were technical exercises in virtuosity with the daring aim of defining the essence of a person in a few deft strokes of the pen." Like the work of boardwalk caricaturists, we associate the contemporary cartoon with deft essentializing, but rarely with high art.

Yet when cartoons as we know them began proliferating, illustrators produced very high-quality work. Many, like English engraver William Hogarth-"regarded as the father of British caricature... and of the comic strip"-are well-known as fine artists. Others, like James Gillray, the most influential cartoonist of the period next to Hogarth, combined fine draughtsmanship with the Italian love of exaggeration and the use of word bubbles. Gillray, who freely satirized figures like George III and Napoleon (above)-is one of many prominent cartoonists represented in the Library of Congress's digital collections of vintage cartoons, which, taken together, is comprised of about 24,000 images.

The work of Gillray, George Cruikshank, and other famous cartoon artists of the "golden Georgian age" (1770-1820) appears in a British Collection that showcases "approximately 9,000 prints" highlighting "British political life, society, fashion, manners, and theater." Most of the Library's American Collection begins when the Georgian period ends, around 1830, when U.S. illustrators participated in furious debates over slavery, the expanding nation's colonial wars and, of course, the Civil War. In the 1864 cartoon above, "Columbia, wearing a liberty cap and a skirt made of an American flag, demands, 'Mr. Lincoln, give me back my 500,000 sons,'" to which the caricature of Lincoln responds with a visual and rhetorical shrug.

The Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon takes us well into the 20th century with 2,085 "drawings, prints, and paintings related to the art of caricature, cartoon, and illustration, spanning the years 1780 to 1977" and encompassing magazine illustrations like Russell Patterson's "Where there's smoke there's fire" at the top, and political cartoons, comic book art, and comic strips like the four-frame Batman comic above from 1966. A larger collection of Cartoon Drawings collects "9,000 original drawings for editorial cartoons, caricatures, and comic strips spanning the late 1700s to the present."

Finally, the Herblock Collection contains "the bulk of the 14,000 original ink and graphite drawings... from 1946 through 2001, when Herblock [Herbert L. Block] worked for the Washington Post," as well as 1,300 images from his days at the Chicago Daily News. (See a slideshow here of selected cartoons throughout the artist's career.) Many of the issues in these drawings now seem forgotten or obscure. Some, like his Nixon cartoons, are newly relevant to our times. As we look through these archives, that phenomenon repeats itself over the course of two-hundred years of cartooning. Fashions and tastes may change, but some of the tangled circumstances of British and American politics have remained remarkably consistent.
Related Content: Download Over 22,000 Golden & Silver Age Comic Books from the Comic Book Plus Archive Read The Very First Comic Book: The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck (1837) Japanese Cartoons from the 1920s and 30s Reveal the Stylistic Roots of Anime How Animated Cartoons Are Made: A Vintage Primer Filmed Way Back in 1919 Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. Follow him at @jdmagness

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24,000 Vintage Cartoons from the Library of Congress Illustrate the History of This Modern Art Form (1780-1977)

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Historically speaking, what we call cartoons began as artifacts of print culture, and as such, of modernity. Before the widespread availability of printed texts, the word "cartoon" referred to a sketch, an artist's mock-up of a greater work.

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Hundreds of Japanese Firework Illustrations Now Available for Free Download

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Hundreds of Japanese Firework Illustrations Now Available for Free Download

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平山煙火製造所は、三河出身の平山甚太と豊前中津出身の岩田茂穂が明治 10(1877)年に、横浜に共同で設立した花火会社です。
国内だけでなく海外からも花火の注文を受けていたようで、海外で販売するために作成された輸出用のカタログが残されています。
平成23(2011)年７月31日（日曜日）には中央図書館地下1階ホールにて、特許庁の櫻井孝氏を講師にお招きして講演会を開催しました。
デジタルアーカイブでは、平山煙火製造所が発行した煙火カタログ６点と昼花火の使用説明図１点のほか、横井煙火発行の煙火カタログ１点をご覧いただけます。

デジタルアーカイブ都市横浜の記憶　URL:　 https://www.lib.city.yokohama.lg.jp/Archive/（外部サイト）

日本で特許制度がスタートしたのは明治18(1885)年、専売特許条例が施行され、専売特許所が設置されたことによります。その後明治32(1899)年にはパリ条約に加入し、国際的な特許保護の枠組みに参加します。このパリ条約発効以降、米国に特許出願された日本人の発明で、一番早く特許になったものは、宮原二郎の出願した「水管式ボイラ」です。
さて、ここで問題となるのは、宮原以前に、まだ日本が国際的な特許保護の枠組みに入る前、さらには日本に特許制度さえない時代に、米国に特許出願した人物はいるのか、ということです。米国特許商標庁に情報提供を依頼したところ、なんと明治16(1883)年に特許取得した日本人がいたのでした。それが平山甚太であり、発明の名称が「昼花火」です。

明治16(1883)年に日本人で初めて米国の特許を取得した人物である平山甚太は、天保11（1840）年１月13日に豊橋で生まれました。三河吉田藩の勘定方を勤めていましたが、早くから横浜に出て各種の商売を手がけます。明治10(1877)年頃には高島町に平山煙火製造所を設立し、その後16(1883)年に米国特許を取得します。明治23(1890)年には郷里豊橋へ移転し、同地において明治33(1900)年に60歳で逝去しました。
米国特許を取得する前、明治10(1877)年に、英国に特許出願しようとしたことが、『工業所有権制度100年史（上巻）』（S59.3）に書かれています。

さて、甚太の発明とはどんなものだったのでしょうか？
米国特許商標庁の記録によると、発明の名称は"Daylight Fire-works"。「昼花火」です。その名の通り、夜ではなく昼に上げる花火で、爆発すると人形などの作りものが飛び出す仕組みでした。和紙などでつくられた意匠物が詰められた外皮に火薬とヒューズが取り付けられ、点火すると外皮が空中に放出され、その中身も放出されるようになっていました。

さらに昼花火について見ていきましょう。
平山煙火製造所は、輸出用に花火カタログを発行しています。中央図書館では６種７点のカタログを所蔵しており、紙などの素材でつくられた「昼花火」の中身がどのようなものであったかを色鮮やかな図版からうかがい知ることができます。
タイトルをクリックすると、デジタルアーカイブ上のカタログ本文がご覧いただけます。

日本に特許制度さえない時代に、甚太はどのようにしてアメリカの特許取得のための手続きを行ったのでしょうか。
書類のやりとりは米国の代理人を通して行っていますが、出願にあたって必要な宣誓書は明治15(1882)年12月に米国神奈川領事館を訪れ、ライス副総領事の署名をもらっています。明治16(1883)年3月、特許出願を行いますが、これは書類の不備などにより拒絶されます。再度書類を作成して6月に2度目の提出を行い、晴れて特許登録されたのが8月でした。

日本がパリ条約に加入するより前に、日本人が日本から出願して米国で取得した特許は平山甚太のも含めてたったの３件でした。まだまだその当時の日本人の目線は海外で特許をとって商売に結びつけるところまでいっていなかったのでしょう。
こうしたなかで、平山のとった海外事業戦略の素早さは、日本におけるグローバルビジネスのパイオニアとして浮かび上がってきます。

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Photography has always been an integral part of design. Unfortunately, we’ve grown accustomed to seeing cheesy stock images of people in suits shaking hands. Not only are a lot of these stock photos tacky, but they cost a lot of money.

Thankfully, there’s been a growing number of websites with beautiful stock photography popping up all over the web. Best of all, they’re free!

In this post, we’ve curated a list of awesome websites for free stock photos.

Quick Note About Licenses

Many of these photographs are free from copyright restrictions or licensed under creative commons public domain dedication. This means you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

However, some photos may require attribution. We’ve done our best to identify which license they fall under but we still advise you to do your own research and determine how these images can be used.

With that out of the way, let’s dive into our top picks for free stock photos.

1. StockSnap

StockSnap.io has a large selection of beautiful free stock photos and high resolution images. The site also has a very handy search feature making it easy to browse through the thousands of images available. In addition, the site tracks views and downloads so you can find the most popular photos available.

StockSnap adds hundreds of images on a daily basis and all photos are released under creative commons public domain – no attribution required.

2. Pexels

Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through their discover pages.

3. Unsplash

Unsplash offers a large collection of free high-resolution photos and has become one of the best sources for stock images. The Unsplash team combs through new submissions and features the very best photos on their homepage. All photos are released for free under the Unsplash license.

4. Burst (by Shopify)

Burst is a resource from Shopify that provides free stock photos for entrepreneurs. Some photos are licensed under Creative Commons CC0 while others fall under Shopify’s own photo license.

Burst was launched to help entrepreneurs make better products, websites, and marketing campaigns. Most of the pictures are original photos that were taken in-house and are themed around trending business niches — everything from DIY beard oil to Aliexpress LED sneakers. You can also find more general photographs as well.

5. Vecteezy

Vecteezy has over a million free stock photos and a curation team that manually reviews every image submitted to the site. Their search is powerful – you can filter the images results by color, orientation, style, number of people, age of people, and more.

Vecteezy requires attribution but includes signed model and property releases for every free photo. This protects you (and your projects) from legal risks.

6. Pixabay

Pixabay offers a large collection of free stock photos, vectors and art illustrations. All photos are released under Creative Commons CC0.

Want an in-depth review of the stock photo sites? We made a video where we cover the top 5 sites, as well as go through their unique features! Check it out:

7. Reshot

Reshot is a massive library of handpicked free stock photos you won’t find elsewhere. Built for startups, freelancers & makers who are sick of tacky stock photos. Free to use commercially and editorially–no attribution required.

8. FoodiesFeed

FoodiesFeed offers thousands of beautiful realistic free food pictures in high resolution. It’s the perfect stock photo site for food bloggers.

9. Gratisography

Gratisography offers free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. New awesome pictures are added weekly and are free of copyright restrictions. All pictures are captured by Ryan McGuire of Bells Design.

10. Freestocks.org

Freestock offers a wide range of high quality photos all released under Creative Commons CC0.

11. Picography

Picography contains beautiful free stock photos submitted by Dave Meier and various other photographers. All photos are released under Creative Commons CC0.

12. Foca

Foca is a collection of high resolution photos provided by Jeffrey Betts. Jeffrey specializes in photos of workspaces and nature. All photos are released under Creative Commons CC0.

13. Picjumbo

Picjumbo is a collection of totally free photos for your commercial & personal works. New photos are added daily from a wide variety of categories including abstract, fashion, nature, technology and much more.

14. Kaboom Pics

Kaboom Pics offers a wide variety of high quality free stock photos including abstract, city/architecture, fashion, food, landscapes and more. Photos can be used for commercial purposes but cannot be sold or redistributed.

15. SkitterPhoto

SkitterPhoto offers a wide variety of free stock photos and are released under Creative Commons CC0. All pictures are authentic and created by Skitterphoto’s owners.

16. Life of Pix

Life of Pix is a resource created by the LEEROY creative agency offering free high-resolution photos with no copyright restrictions.

17. Little Visuals

This mention comes with a bit of sad news. The owner of the site Nic passed away but his photos remain in his memory. All photos that have been posted were released under the creative commons license public domain dedication.

18. New Old Stock

Vintage photos from the public archives free of known copyright restrictions.

19. Jay Mantri

7 new photos released every Thursday under the Creative Commons CC0 license. Jay Mantri posts some really nice photos with a variety of different themes.

20. Picspree

Backed by Getty Images, Picspree provides a large selection of high quality stock photos completely royalty free. With easy searching and frictionless downloading Picspree is an excellent resource for small businesses and web professionals looking for high quality photos without the worry of licensing.

21. ISO Republic

ISO Republic offers a broad range of photos; they add new images every day under for free under the CCO license.

22. StyledStock

StyleStock offers free feminine stock photography for every woman entrepreneur. The collection is totally free for your commercial & personal works.

Bonus: If you’re looking to whip up graphics for social media, blog posts, ads and more using these free stock photos, get started with Snappa for free.

Conclusion

As you can see, there’s a growing number of fantastic resources for stock photography. These websites have become a blessing for designers, marketers and bloggers. No need to rely on cheesy stock photos anymore!

About the author: Nick Le is the marketing manager at Snappa. He has published several articles relating to social media marketing.

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