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.
Site | Type | Number of Images | Video | Sound | Search | Languages |
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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 | ||||||
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 | ||||||
Vecteezy | English | |||||
Pexels | Commons | Yes | No | Yes | ||
Pixabay | Commons | 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 [3] | 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 Oregon Digital | ||||||
University of Southern California Libraries | ||||||
University of Washington Libraries | Yes | English | ||||
Unsplash | Commons with additional restrictions [4] | 1,000,000+ (2020) | No | No | Yes | English |
Wikimedia Commons | Commons | 79,000,000+ (Nov 2021) [5] | Yes | Yes | Yes | English (Default) + other languages |