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Public Domain Image Archive
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Curated collection of 10,000+ public domain images, free for users to explore and reuse, even commercially. A project of @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

Website: https://pdimagearchive.org/
“She beckoned to Veikko” (1922) by Jay Van Everen, from Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.

Source: @nypl.bsky.social / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/038bd2b1-27e1-44fa-9de6-f5f76b4a6eb7

#scandinavia #animals #nature #myth #finland #patterns #trees
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Facsimile of the Codex Mendoza, ca. 1541–1650 (1831–48) by Agostino Aglio, from Antiquities of Mexico.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b77a3c0a-c2fc-46e0-b2d6-51e90a8777cd

#rowboats #mayans
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Everything as a Precaution (17th century) by Nicolas Guerard.

Source: US National Library of Medicine

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/52dfec39-ddcc-44e0-b334-0a7c7fcec23d

#animals #transfusion #portraiture #books #blood #glass #versailles #descartes #lambs #art
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Illustration by Adolf Schmidt, from Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (1890).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/daf9dc4f-93c1-4256-a1db-6f8c67b1ecfd

#algae #diatoms #micrography #microscopes #art #publicdomain
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Formosan Funeral (1704) by George Psalmanazar, from An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa
.

Source: Duke University Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/33c41672-853b-4081-941c-59278edf8be1

#poles #charlatans #formosa #tricksters #decorative #hoaxes
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Illustration by Philipp Hainhofer, from Große Stammbuch (1596–1633).

Source: Herzog August Bibliothek

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/03ed0692-a716-4698-b584-8011d5f041a7

#water #societies #fish #nobility #buildings #floral #signatures #friendship #art #publicdomain
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Priests as Snake Charmers (1850) by John Leech, from The Comic History of Rome
.

Source: Duke University Libraries / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/34cb2738-0080-4f2e-abbd-773400512459

#caricatures #victorian #romans #cartoons #booth #advertising #art #publicdomain
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
A Section, and Segments of a Creation of a double Construction (1750) by Thomas Wright, from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/2e460df3-a735-46f6-a9b3-f3f91efd6d0b

#diagrams #space #astronomy
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Sacrifice to a Sovereign (1780) by Maria Catharina Prestel, Abraham Bloemaert.

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f77421ae-4ace-483a-827b-27e3911d1c0b

#printing #aquatint #drawing #architecture #art #publicdomain
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
From Die Asteriden der Siboga-Expedition (1917).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage LibraryInternet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c73b6ba8-4c54-4564-bd29-ef1ca21a9d9a

#collage #marine #biology #sea #oceans #starfish #echinoderms #art #publicdomain
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Bug (1764–8) by Martin Frobenius Ledermüller, from Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b68ac074-5f64-46eb-80e9-5e375494e5ab

#micrography #insects #microscopes #entomology #biology
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Thomas Smillie, 1890–1913.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Flickr: The Commons

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cfece78b-752d-4ba1-89ab-e39ce280bd24

#museums #animals #taxidermy #education #cyanotype #birds #art #publicdomain
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
From Der Naturen Bloeme (ca. 1350).

Source: National Library of the Netherlands

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/98988741-7512-4470-865e-2cbed564103b

#animals #bestiary #snails #art #publicdomain
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Wild garlic (Allium Ampeloprasum L.) (ca. 1900–20) by American Colony, from Wild Flowers of Palestine.

Source: @librarycongress.bsky.social

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/58609226-483f-433d-9d52-6cae2930d0e2

#plant-photography #wildflowers #herbs #israel #botany #natural-history #floral
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The Horse (1805) by William Blake, from William Hayley's Ballads.

Source: Yale Center for British Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b0b09f41-2ce8-4e52-8fd7-8b7edba0be2d

#forests #trees #jerusalem #urizen #horses #art #publicdomain
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Edward George Bruton's velocipede. (1889) by Robert Pittis Scott, from Cycling Art, Energy, and Locomotion.

Source: @bpl.boston.gov‬ / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42416fac-8760-470d-9f9d-179adddfa187

#patents #technology #bicycles #engineering #cycling #vehicles #inventions
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Young Woman and Death (1854) by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot.

Source: Davison Art Center

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/42e62473-1225-4813-bacb-dccefd5d48e8

#france #nature #trees #light #friendship #art #publicdomain
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Wizard preparing for a "spirit flight" (1913) by Knud Rasmussen, from Eskimo Folktales.

Source: @nypl.bsky.social / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1532626a-cc05-475a-ab5f-b3f6db6c73e0

#wings #spirituality #drums #wizards #rituals #greenland #magic #inuit #art #publicdomain
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Leaf from Book of Hours: Snowball Fight (ca. 1510), from Walters W.425.12R.

Source: The Walters Art Museum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/9205ca57-e373-43b7-bf85-8081fe83fc22

#snowballs #winter #snow #fighting #windmills #children #churches #play #art #publicdomain
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Hazelnut (Corylus avellane) (ca. 1510–1515) by Master of Claude de France, from Book of Flower Studies.

Source: @metmuseum.org

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d393d62d-c1a5-4ce9-87ea-774cfa8399c5

#spring #birds #botanical-art #illuminated-manuscripts
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM