Terms of Use

These images are public domain (PD), and that means they can be used and edited for whatever purpose you wish, personal or commercial. No attrribution or linking is required. There are only two modest exceptions to being able to do anything at all with any of the images (see "exceptions" below.)

Exceptions

• A small percentage of the clipart consists of Company logos, recognizable hardware and postage stamp art, which are not formally PD but are available via Fair Use, which means that they are actually copyrighted but can be used without the owner's permission in many situations.
  
  Small credit-card reproductions to use on a website or flier are examples of Fair Use -- but you should realize that you cannot do something like make your own company logo based upon one of the Fair Use items.


• My website is mine. I do not expect anyone to copy my site or the image collection (in large part) to host online or sell.
  
  You may ask how I can place limits on the use of public domain images -- public domain is public domain, right? The answer is that this is a derivative work. The individual images are public domain, but the collection is copyrightable. (Dover Publications are a perfect example of this.)
  
  I, however, do NOT try to limit the offline use AT ALL. Put the images, as many as you'd like, in all the school papers or business fliers you have a mind to . . .  I only ask that you don't, in effect, mirror the content of this site and take away what revenue I make from the online ads. [This revenue pays for the dedicated server, ink, paper, and modestly compensates me for the hundreds of hours I spend collecting and editing the images as well as maintaining the site.]
  
  The entire collection is also freely available to download. And if you want to use an image or two or a couple dozen on your web site -- by all means, be my guest, there's no need to ask.

Regarding possible errors in PD status

Wpclipart.com respects the intellectual property rights of others, and I ask our users to do the same. If you believe that your copyrighted work has been copied and is accessible on the wpclipart.com web site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please send a notice providing the following information:

1. The electronic or physical signature of the owner of the copyright or the person authorized to act on the owner's behalf;


2. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;


3. A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located, such as the URL where it is posted;


4. Your name, address, telephone number and email address;


5. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and


6. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

Send this information to:

	Paul Sherman
	416 Stone Road
	Rochester, NY 14616
	

List of sources

  If you want to check on me, all the sources are listed below. Another use of the links is for those of you who may wish to use the clipart for purposes more broad than just pasting into a document. As mentioned on the frontpage -- the originals were often of much greater resolution. So if you want to play with them in a graphics editor, try the original sources.

Clipart Sources

USDA
National Wildlife Research Center
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ws/nwrc/is/publications.html

Natural resources Conservation Service
Photo Gallery
http://photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov/

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Digtal Library System)
http://images.fws.gov/

CIA (US) - The World Factbook
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Edward Sheriff Curtis
"The North American Indian"
Northwestern University Digital Library Collections
http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/
Images at:
http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/toc.cgi

Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Dinosaurs/Wikipedia_CD_Selection_Dinosaurs

Teaching Politics
public domain images of American Political History
http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/

OpenClipart.org
http://www.openclipart.org
converted from SVG

U.S. Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/

Western Colorado Wildlife Habitat Association
http://www.wcowildlifehabitat.org/wl_sightings.htm
raccoon (and some other animals)

The Science Education Resource Page
ClipArt Index
http://serp.la.asu.edu/clipart_dir/clipartidx.html

National Agricultural library
http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll

http://www.mine-safety.mtu.edu/clipart.htm

Project Runeberg (Plants)
http://runeberg.org/

Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/

National Cancer Institute - Visuals Online
http://www.cancer.gov/

US Dept of Agriculture: Rural Development
http://www.resales.usda.gov

Association of British Counties
http://www.abcounties.co.uk

National Marine Mammal Laboratory
http://nmml.afsc.noaa.gov/

http://rsb.info.nih.gov
Research Services Branch National Institute of Mental Health

Center for Disease Control and Prevention
http://phil.cdc.gov/

US Dept of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
http://health.nih.gov/

Eat 5 to 9 a day for better health
http://www.5aday.gov/tools/assets/photos_fv.html

University of Washington Libraries Digital Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/

University of Texas at Austin
Portraits
http://utopia.utexas.edu/project/portraits/
Historical Maps of the United States
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html

GRIN (Great Images in NASA)
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov

Informal Science Education Resources
from the home of NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope
http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/sources/illustrations/constellations/

WebMuseum
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/

Federal Aviation Authority
www.faa.gov

Nicu's Clipart Collection
http://clipart.nicubunu.ro/

NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE - Military Image Collection
http://www.ndu.edu/nwc

Nice printable maps in PDF format for US and states:
http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/reference.html#list

Air War College
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/

AIGA - The professional association for design
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?ContentAlias=symbolsigns

Graphic Arts Guild
http://www.gag.org/resources/das.php

EPA - Water - Kids page
http://www.epa.gov/ow/kids.html

EPA endangered species coloring book
http://www.epa.gov/espp/coloring/

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
kids coloring pages
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/color.htm

KamsArt's collection of free clipart (WMF format)
Site no longer maintained, but available via webarchive.org
[PLEASE NOTE - a copyright infringement accusation was made
concerning this site to WPClipart, but no documentation was
offered and no legal proceedings took place.]
Part of Webarchive section
http://web.archive.org/web/20040918060853/http://www.kamsart.com/

Ireland First - clipart archive
(nice clipart, no blarney)
http://www.eirefirst.com/clipart/

Kelta Web Concepts
http://www.keltawebconcepts.com.au/clip_tools.htm

PD Photo - Free, Public Domain Photos
http://pdphoto.org

Celines Original Gifs
http://www.specialweb.com/original/gifsfaq.html

Office Diversions
http://officediversions.com/
(claim all PD but some rejected)

Antique Clipart
http://antiqueclipart.com/

Kansas City Metropolitan Library & Information Network
http://www.kcmlin.org/books.htm

Larabie Fonts
http://www.larabiefonts.com/
made images from free dingbat fonts using FONTpage then manipulated

More fonts used, one from Alan Carr.
Freeware font, no homepage.
(Carr Xmas Dingbats)

Another font from Vivek Kambli (he released as PD):
http://members.tripod.com/~xmas_dream/fonts/fonts.html

Sakabe People fonts
http://www1.linkclub.or.jp/~saruo/

Christmas stuff from the next three sites:

Site by George Rabe.
http://www.georgerabe.com/mysite1/holidays/holida00.htm

free vector clipart
(Converted and edited from wmf format)
http://www.clip-art.ru

United Methodist Church
http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=1&mid=792

Christians Unite
http://clipart.christiansunite.com/

Trumbell Center Fire Department
http://www.tcfd.com/clip-art/

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - U.S. Deptartment of Commerce)
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
several sections, including:
JetStream - Online School for Weather
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/index.htm

Road Signs -US Dept of Transportation
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/
and
http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/users/olawlor/projects/2003/roadsigns/

Corvette images:
http://members.aol.com/licoa/graphics.htm#1953

U.S. Armed Forces sites:
http://www.af.mil/
http://www.army.mil/
http://www.usmc.mil/
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/

NASA Drop Tower Facility
http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/drop2/tools.htm

Johann Friedrich Naumann,
Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas
(Natural history of the birds of central Europe)
- Book from 1905

Probert Encyclopaedia
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/
free for all pictures section
NOTE: Some of the images there would be considered Fair Use,
not Public Domain. For example, pictures of actors from movies.
(These by their nature are copyrighted.)
The integrity of textual content is another matter...
(They state as fact that the 2000 presidential election was rigged.)

Food Safety and Inspection Service
http://www.fsis.usda.gov
and Plants
http://plants.usda.gov

National Weather Service
Southern Region Headquarters
www.srh.weather.gov

From Old Books
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/

http://www.catholicsource.net
bellazi holy cards


Wikipedia: aproved dinosaur images
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Approved_dinosaur_images
(most by LadyOfHats)
ALSO: several other images from this artist,
mostly detailed biology-related, extremely high-quality
and colorful. Quite useful for presentation pages. Many
of the labeled diagrams have versions in several languages.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LadyofHats

--------------- Out-of-copyright books: -----------------

Some American History from:
Discoverers and Explorers
by Edward R. Shaw (603)
Gutenberg EBook #22116

FROM National Library of Medicine--
http://www.nlm.nih.gov site:
Author: Cheselden, William (1688-1752).
Title: Osteographia, or The anatomy of the bones.
Publication Information: London: [William Bowyer], 1733.

The Botanical Magazine (or Flower-Garden Displayed)
Published in London - 1793
Author: William Curtis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll
Copied and edited from Gutenberg book:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-ftitle.html

Moby-Dick [or, The White Whale]
Author: Herman Melville
(1892). Boston: L.C. Page & Company.

Myths and Legends of All Nations
Author: by Various
edited by Logan Marshall
Project Guttenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20740

The FIRELIGHT FAIRY BOOK
By HENRY BESTON
ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAURICE E. DAY
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY BOSTON
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS, Inc.

Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories
Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale, William Byron Forbush
copyright, 1919, by The University Society Inc.

New International Ecyclopedia
(Mostly animal images, several on each page
separated and edited for contrast and color)
Mead and Company 1914

Lion skull
Author: Vimont, Joseph (1795-1857).
Title:Traité de phrénologie humaine et comparée
Publication Information: Paris: J. B. Baillière, 1832-35.

brain/heart
Author: Quain, Richard (1800-1887).
Title: The anatomy of the arteries of the human body, with its applications to pathology and operative surgery.
Publication Information: (London: Printed for Taylor and Walton, 1844).

skeleton
Author: Eustachi, Bartholomeo (d. 1574).
Title: Tabulae anatomicae.
Publication Information: Rome: P. Junchus, 1783.

Some of the religious images
The Story of the Bible by Charles Foster - copyright 1884.

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All clipart in the collection was obtained exclusively from the sites listed above, or created/photographed personally by me, or gleaned from Wikipedia when properly released into the Public Domain.

A lot came from OpenClipart. Most maps and flags came from The World Factbook. teachpol.tcnj.edu (Teaching Politics) accounts for most of the US History Section. A few items each are from Celine's and Watton. Two paintings, so far, are from the WebMuseum.

I also like playing with the photos Jon Sullivan puts into the Public Domain at pdphoto.org. (Although I don't include much due to size.) If you use something from Jon's website, make sure there are not recognizable people in the picture and that the particular photo is marked as Public Domain (most are.)

Concerning Paintings: The following is quoted from the WikiPedia Public Domain page -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources

Note: Accurate photographs of visual artworks lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the painting's copyright has expired (which it has in the US if it was published before 1923). All other copyright notices can safely be ignored.

Remember, the two sentences above are about photos of paintings.

Many, many sites claim "free" clipart, but most require accreditation, or a link, or at least that the images NOT be redistributed without permission. NONE of those can be included. If you submit something you did not create yourself I ask that you document where it was obtained.