Jul 14 2009
High-Resolution Images
There are numerous sites with free images, but few are considered pubic domain. Here is a list of ten sites with great quality images and multimedia content. This list was put together by Garr Reynolds on his blog Presentation Zen. These sites have large versions of their images for you to use with your lessons or have your students use as they create podcasts, movies, digital storybooks, etc. Large images are better than small ones because it gives you the flexibility to resize them if they are too large for your project or if you simply want to crop a section of the photograph to highlight a particular element. As educators, we are able to use most images for educational use, but it is always good practice to check the terms of use, just to be safe.
• Earth Observatory (NASA). So much goodness here. I’m sure every teacher already has this site bookmarked.
• Visible Earth (NASA). This is a new collection of earth imagery from NASA. Click on the image to get a much larger size.
• Great Images in NASA. A collection of about a thousand images of historical interest scanned at high-resolution in several sizes.
• NASA multimedia. Includes many high-quality photos as well.
• Photos by Astronauts. A gazillion cool images from space.
• NOAA Photo Library. Search the site or browse through “collections” at the top. Hundreds and hundreds of historical photos in there too.
• Uncle Sam’s Photos. A directory of the U.S Government’s free stock photo sites.
• The (US) National Archives. The National Archives has more than 30 million photos stored in several buildings in the US, many of them are available online. High-rez photos of The Constitution and The Bill of Rights, etc. as well as loads of photos from WWII in general and Japanese American Internment, and so on. I think I have seen some of the WWII images in Ken Burns’ s documentary The War (highly recommended).
• WWII posters. Not too many high-rez images here, but very interesting. Sizes may be good enough for slides.
• Public Domain Pictures. A repository for free public domain photos. Easy to search.
If you know any other public domain sites that offer good quality in the form of historical archives, etc. please share your links in the comments section below. Thanks.
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