Public Domain Photos

This section contains the best images from the Public Domain. The public domain comprises copyright-free works thet anyone can use them in any way and for whatever purpose. The reason something might be in the public domain is because it was published before 1923, published by a division of the United States Government (thereby paid for by public taxes), does not contain significant human creative content (eg. a not sinificantly altered copy or photograph of an object not created by the photographer) Deliberately released into the public domain by its creator. There are many other reasons why a work might be in the public domain. For more information, see this comprehensive explanation of why a work might be in the Public Domain

To download an image, click on the thumbnail, a popup window will appear that displays the full-size image. Right-click on the full-size image and in the the menu that appears, select "save Picture As...". In the "Save Picture" dialog box that appears, navigate to a folder in which you want to save the image.