List of online image archives

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This is an incomplete list of notable online image archives, including both image hosting websites, and archives hosted by libraries and other academic or historical institutions.

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List of archives

SiteTypeNumber of ImagesVideoSoundSearchLanguages
Adobe Stock Stock Images 366,000,000+ (January 2025) [1] YesNoYesEnglish, French
Alamy Stock Images 95,000,000+YesNoYesEnglish (Default)+ German
ArenaPAL Performing Arts Image Library Performing Arts 5,000,000+NoNoYesEnglish
Artstor Digital Library
Associated Press Rights Managed 12,000,000+YesNoYesEnglish
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
Depositphotos Stock Images 164,000,000+ (June 2020)YesNoYesEnglish (Default)+ 21 other languages
Europeana
Flickr Commons YesNoNoEnglish (Default) + 9 other languages
Frick Digital Image Archive
Geograph Britain and Ireland Commons 7,900,000+ (March 2025) [2] NoNoYesEnglish
Getty Images
Harvard Library
Internet Archive 5.13 million (March 2025) [3] YesYesYes
Library of Congress Public domain
Life (magazine)
Nationaal Archief (1945–1989) collection of over 400,000 (Dutch) press-images Commons approximately 400,000NoNoYesDutch (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  30% Public domain 922,400+ (May 2024) [4] NoNoYesEnglish
Pexels Pexels license YesNoYes
Pixabay Pixabay license 950,000+ (May 2017)YesNoYesEnglish (Default) + 25 other languages
Pond5 Royalty-free 11,000,000+ (Jan 2017)YesYesYesEnglish (Default) + 7 other languages
Smithsonian Institution / Smithsonian Open Access 4,400,000+ (Jan 2023)
Shutterstock [5] Royalty-free 450,000,000+ (March 2025) [6] YesYesYesEnglish (Default) + 19 other languages
The New York Times Rights Managed 5,000,000+YesNoYesEnglish
Time Rights Managed 1,000,000+YesNoYesEnglish
United Press International (1907–2007)
United States National Library of Medicine, images from the history of medicine
University of Southern California Libraries
Unsplash Commons with additional restrictions [7] 1,000,000+ (2020)NoNoYesEnglish
Wikimedia Commons Commons 116,000,000+ (March 2025) [8] YesYesYesEnglish (Default) + other languages


See also

References

  1. Broz, Matic (December 29, 2024). "Adobe statistics: Creative Cloud users, Adobe Stock data, & acquisitions". Photutorial. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
  2. "Progress So far... :: Geograph Britain and Ireland". geograph.org.uk. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
  3. "Image". Internet Archive. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
  4. "About The New York Public Library Digital Collections - NYPL Digital Collections". digitalcollections.nypl.org. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  5. Stephen Shankland "Shutterstock Buys Rival, Shifts Photo Sales Strategy" Archived 2014-02-13 at the Wayback Machine , CNET , September 23, 2009
  6. https://www.shutterstock.com/images
  7. Unsplash. "License | Unsplash". unsplash.com. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
  8. Statistics page on Wikimedia Commons