List of online image archives
This is an incomplete list of notable online image archives, including both image hosting websites like Flickr and archives hosted by libraries and other academic or historical institutions.
List of archives[]
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| Site | Type | Number of Images | Video | Sound | Search | Languages |
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| Adobe Stock | Stock Images | 100,000,000+ | Yes | No | Yes | English, French |
| Alamy | Stock Images | 95,000,000+ | Yes | No | Yes | English (Default)+ German |
| Arenapal | Performing Arts | |||||
| Artstor Digital Library | ||||||
Associated Press
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| Bridgeman Art Library | ||||||
| California Digital Library | ||||||
| California State University, Northridge, Oviatt Library Digital Collections | ||||||
| Camera Press | ||||||
| Chicago Daily News (1902–1933), collection of over 55,000 images on glass plate negatives | ||||||
| Colourbox | Royalty-free | 25,000,000+ | Yes | No | Yes | English, Danish, German |
| Corbis Images | ||||||
| Depositphotos | Stock Images | 164,000,000+ (June 2020) | Yes | No | Yes | English (Default)+ 21 other languages |
| ETH Zurich e-pics | Yes | English, German | ||||
| Europeana | ||||||
| Flickr | Commons | Yes | No | No | English (Default) + 9 other languages | |
| Frick Digital Image Archive | ||||||
| Geograph Britain and Ireland | Commons | 5,100,000+ (Nov 2016 [1]) | No | No | Yes | English |
Getty Images
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| Harvard Library | ||||||
| Internet Archive | 3.5 million[2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Library of Congress | ||||||
| Life (magazine) | ||||||
| Stock Images | 27,000,000+ (Jan 2020) | No | No | Yes | English (Default) + 4 other Northern European languages | |
| Nationaal Archief (1945–1989) collection of over 400.000 (Dutch) press-images | Commons | approximately 400.000 | No | No | Yes | Dutch (Default)+ English |
| National Geographic Image Collection (1888–present), collection of more than 10 million digital images, transparencies, b&w prints, early auto chromes, and pieces of original artwork | ||||||
| New York Daily News (1880–2007), online photo archive DailyNewsPix, with photographs dating back to 1880 | ||||||
| New York Public Library | ||||||
| Pexels | Commons | Yes | No | Yes | ||
| Pixabay | Commons | 950,000+ (May 2017) | Yes | No | Yes | English (Default) + 25 other languages |
| Pond5 | Royalty-free | 11,000,000+ (Jan 2017) | Yes | Yes | Yes | English (Default) + 7 other languages |
| Shutterstock[3] | Royalty-free | 319,990,308 (Jan 2020) | Yes | Yes | Yes | English (Default) + 19 other languages |
| Storyblocks | Stock Images | |||||
| The New York Times | ||||||
| Time | ||||||
| United Press International (1907–2007) | ||||||
| United States National Library of Medicine, images from the history of medicine | ||||||
| University of Oregon Digital | ||||||
| University of Southern California Libraries | ||||||
| University of Washington Libraries | Yes | English | ||||
| Unsplash | Commons with additional restrictions[4] | 1,000,000+ (2020) | No | No | Yes | English |
| Wikimedia Commons | Commons | 79,000,000+ (Nov 2021) [5] | Yes | Yes | Yes | English (Default) + other languages |
See also[]
- Commons:Free media resources
- Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives
- List of online magazines
- Wikipedia:List of online video archives
- Newsreel
References[]
- ^ "Progress So far... :: Geograph Britain and Ireland". geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
- ^ "Image". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on September 25, 2020. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
- ^ Stephen Shankland "Shutterstock Buys Rival, Shifts Photo Sales Strategy", CNET, September 23, 2009
- ^ Unsplash. "License | Unsplash". unsplash.com. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
- ^ Statistics page on Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Photo archives
- Lists of websites