Public Domain Resource
for Collage

As covered in the Copyright page, it is best to use original images in your collage. However, another image resrouce is public domain imagery.

In general, works produced before 1923 and most work created by the United States government are in public domain. They are free to use in any manner you desire. Other copyrights may have not been renewed, but that can be difficult to research.

With any of these resources, read the legal agreements and use at your own risk!

Migrant Mother by Dorthea Lange from the Library of Congress, shown on the right.

Public Domain Resources

www.doverpublications.com - Dover publishes many books and CD's of public domain art. They are inexpensive, high quality and have a good, clear licensing agreement.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain - Public domain info from Wikipedia

www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html - CIA Factbook, text and images

www.openflix.com - Movie titles in public domain

Public Domain Images to Download

gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE - Community indexed photo archive

Library of Congress - Prints, not all images are public domain!

www.openclipart.org/downloads/index.php - Open clip art

www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html - Great maps!

Wikimedia Commons - from Wikipedia

Public domain resources - from Wiki

Public domain image resources - from Wiki

www.gutenberg.org - Need text? Thousands of public domain books on-line!

Open Source Free Software

You might not know about these software applications, and since you are looking for free, I thought I would include it. Gimp is a powerful but complex imaging software, similar to Photoshop. Dia was designed as a diagram drawing application, but comes with a huge symbol library and is fun to draw original art with. There are some business applications and more. Most have been ported run to on Macintosh, Windows and Linux operating systems.

gimp.org - GNU Image Manipulation Program.

gnome.org/projects/dia - Dia diagram tool.

www.abiword.org - Abiword word processor.

www.openoffice.org - Open Office, complete business and simple graphics suite.

www.TexasOpenSource - Links to many free, open source applications for Mac, Windows and Linux.