The Library of Congress makes thousands of fabulous photos, posters & images free to use & reuse

Open Culture:

The Library has done its digital users a service in this regard as well, with its “Free to Use and Reuse Sets,” a sizable collection of images that the Library “believes… is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use.”

Need photographs of Abraham Lincoln—and scans of his speeches, letters, and “dueling instructions”—for that book you’re writing? You’re covered with this gallery. Need a collection of classic children’s books for your website (or your reading pleasure)? Here you go.

What an incredible collection to peruse and use.



2 thoughts on “The Library of Congress makes thousands of fabulous photos, posters & images free to use & reuse”

  1. From the LP: “As if “reveal codes” or installing a TSR was required to be doing work.”

    That example perhaps reveals (if I may say so) more than the author intended. WordPerfect’s reveal codes function has never been duplicated or improved on by the systems that replaced (and in sales far exceeded) WP, and the ‘hide all fomatting in the last paragraph mark’ system of Microsoft Word caused perhaps a trillion dollars or more of deadweight loss to the global economy before Microsoft finally figured out how to re-create functionality its predecessors had perfected in 1982 – and that day didn’t come until 2010!

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