List of online image archives explained

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

!Site!Type!Number of Images!Video!Sound!Search!Languages
Adobe StockStock Images100,000,000+YesNoYesEnglish, French
AlamyStock Images95,000,000+YesNoYesEnglish (Default)+ German
ArenaPAL Performing Arts Image LibraryPerforming Arts5,000,000+NoNoYesEnglish
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
DepositphotosStock Images164,000,000+ (June 2020)YesNoYesEnglish (Default)+ 21 other languages
Europeana
FlickrCommonsYesNoNoEnglish (Default) + 9 other languages
Frick Digital Image Archive
Geograph Britain and IrelandCommons5,100,000+ (Nov 2016 [1])NoNoYesEnglish
Getty Images
Harvard Library
Internet Archive3.5 million[2] YesYesYes
Library of CongressPublic domain
Life (magazine)
Nationaal Archief (1945–1989) collection of over 400,000 (Dutch) press-imagesCommonsapproximately 400,000NoNoYesDutch (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 domain922,400+ (May 2024)[3] NoNoYesEnglish
PexelsPexels licenseYesNoYes
PixabayPixabay license950,000+ (May 2017)YesNoYesEnglish (Default) + 25 other languages
Pond5Royalty-free11,000,000+ (Jan 2017)YesYesYesEnglish (Default) + 7 other languages
Smithsonian Institution / Smithsonian Open Access4,400,000+ (Jan 2023)
Shutterstock[4] Royalty-free319,990,308 (Jan 2020)YesYesYesEnglish (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
UnsplashCommons with additional restrictions[5] 1,000,000+ (2020)NoNoYesEnglish
Wikimedia CommonsCommons79,000,000+ (Nov 2021) [6] YesYesYesEnglish (Default) + other languages

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Progress So far... :: Geograph Britain and Ireland. geograph.org.uk. 2017-12-14.
  2. Web site: Image. Internet Archive . October 12, 2020. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200925032250/https://archive.org/details/image. September 25, 2020.
  3. Web site: About The New York Public Library Digital Collections - NYPL Digital Collections . 2024-05-01 . digitalcollections.nypl.org.
  4. Stephen Shankland "Shutterstock Buys Rival, Shifts Photo Sales Strategy", CNET, September 23, 2009
  5. Web site: License Unsplash. Unsplash. unsplash.com. 2017-07-16.
  6. [commons:Special:Statistics|Statistics page]