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Images

American Memory Project
These still and moving images, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

AP Images
Coverage: 1840-present. The photo archive for the Associated Press has over 500, 000 images dating from 1844 to the present and covering a wide range of events and locations.

ARTstor
Coverage: varies. A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data, with unique tools to actively use those images for teaching, learning and research.

Human Ecology Historical Photographs
The records of the New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell University document the history of the College, and its activities, events, and personalities. This Web site provides a database of selected images and information from the records of the College of Home Economics.

New York Public Library Digital Library
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

Ohio State University Cartoon Image Database
The Cartoon Library and Museum`s digital image database contains scanned images from their collection. The collection documents American printed cartoon art, including editorial cartoons and comic strips. Some images are scanned from the original art while others are scanned from newspaper tear sheets or other printed sources.

World Bank Photo Collection
The World Bank has a distinctive collection of over 12,000 images that illustrate development through topics such as Agriculture, Education, Environment, Health, Trade and more.

Copyright-friendly images

AnimalPhotos.info
Thousands of free to use animals photos divided up in to easy to browse categories.

compfight
Compfight is a search engine for flickr photos that have been marked as usable with a creative commons license. The search engine offers several easy ways to limit your results.

Flickr: Creative Commons
Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.

morgueFile
This sites provides the public and creative community with free raw photo materials.

PD photo
PDPhoto.org is a repository for free public domain photos. Unless something is clearly marked as being copyrighted, you can assume it is free to use.

The Library of Congress flickr project
Over 5,000 images from the Library of Congress collections.

U.S. Government Photos and Graphics
Most of these images and graphics are available for use in the public domain, and they may be used and reproduced without permission or fee.

Wikimedia
a database of over 2 million freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute

Video

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world`s most extensive and complete archive of television news. They have been recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968. The core of the collection consists of regularly scheduled newscasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News. Content from CNN (1995- )and NBC News (Aug. 5th 1968- ) are available as streaming video. No current material will be made available until at least 72 hours after it was originally broadcast. Compilations of other media are expensive to obtain, but may be requested by faculty and Colgate students completing a senior thesis.

blip.tv
blip.tv is a free videoblogging, podcasting and video sharing service. It is intended for original, episodic content.

GUBA
Founded in 1998, GUBA is a leading online entertainment destination helping users browse, download and share video on the internet. GUBA users can watch videos in Flash or download to the PC, iPod, PSP, and other portable devices.

MIT World
MIT Worldâ„¢ is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT.

Moving Image Archive
This library contains thousands of digital movies which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to videos of every genre uploaded by Archive users. Many of these movies are available for download.

ResearchChannel
ResearchChannel was founded by a consortium of research and academic institutions to share the output of their researchers with the public. Viewers access programs online via a live webstream and an extensive video-on-demand library. The library houses more than 3,500 full-length programs that are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week

The Library of Congress YouTube channel
This collection is starting with 70 videos, arranged in the following playlists: 2008 National Book Festival author presentations, the Books and Beyond author series, Journeys and Crossings (a series of curator discussions), \"Westinghouse\" industrial films from 1904, scholar discussions from the John W. Kluge Center, and the earliest movies made by Thomas Edison, including the first moving image ever made (curiously enough, a sneeze by a man named Fred Ott).

The Open Video Project
The Open Video repository provides video clips from a variety of sources, especially various video programs obtained from U.S. government agencies such as the National Records and Archives Administration and NASA.