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
edit| Site | Type | Number of Images | Video | Sound | Search | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Image Library | Performing Arts | 5,000,000+ | No | No | Yes | English |
| Artstor Digital Library | ||||||
| Associated Press | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| Corbis Images | ||||||
| Depositphotos | Stock Images | 164,000,000+ (June 2020) | Yes | No | Yes | English (Default)+ 21 other languages |
| 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 | ||||||
| Harvard Library | ||||||
| Internet Archive | 3.5 million[2] | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Library of Congress | Public domain | |||||
| Life (magazine) | ||||||
| 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 | ≈ 30% Public domain | 922,400+ (May 2024)[3] | No | No | Yes | English |
| Pexels | Pexels license | Yes | No | Yes | ||
| Pixabay | Pixabay license | 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 |
| Smithsonian Institution / Smithsonian Open Access | 4,400,000+ (Jan 2023) | |||||
| Shutterstock[4] | Royalty-free | 319,990,308 (Jan 2020) | Yes | Yes | Yes | English (Default) + 19 other languages |
| The New York Times | ||||||
| Time | ||||||
| United Press International (1907–2007) | ||||||
| United States National Library of Medicine, images from the history of medicine | ||||||
| University of Southern California Libraries | ||||||
| Unsplash | Commons with additional restrictions[5] | 1,000,000+ (2020) | No | No | Yes | English |
| Wikimedia Commons | Commons | 79,000,000+ (Nov 2021) [6] | Yes | Yes | Yes | English (Default) + other languages |
See also
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References
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ "About The New York Public Library Digital Collections - NYPL Digital Collections". digitalcollections.nypl.org. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
- ^ Stephen Shankland "Shutterstock Buys Rival, Shifts Photo Sales Strategy" Archived 2014-02-13 at the Wayback Machine, CNET, September 23, 2009
- ^ Unsplash. "License | Unsplash". unsplash.com. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
- ^ Statistics page on Wikimedia Commons