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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, (although a link would be nice...)

I only make one request:

Minor Exception

•  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. This would compete with my site, draining what revenue I generate through online ads. These pay for hosting and modestly compensate me all the ink I use in test printing and for the hundreds of hours I spend finding, creating and editing images.
  
   That said, if you wish to include the collection within a GPL-ed Linux distribution or create a package for that distribution, you are more than welcome to do so. I am a big proponent of Open Source and originally created a modest version of the collection for my kids to use on Linux with AbiWord. To be able to devote time to the project I need the site to generate some revenue -- but first and foremost, the clipart was made as a resource for school kids and others to use without fear of copyright infringement and the risk of running into all sorts of "untoward" pictures when searching the web for graphics. I'd like to keep it that way.
  
   If any school wishes to place the collection on a common server for use within the school or district -- it would be my honour for you to use the project in such a way.
  
  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
	

This is in accordance with the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Any requests which do not adhere to these procedures will be ignored.

Section 512(c)(3) sets out the elements for notification under the DMCA. Subsection A (17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3)(A)) states that to be effective a notification must include: 1) a physical/electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the infringed right; 2) identification of the copyrighted works claimed to have been infringed; 3) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed; 4) information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party (e.g., the address, telephone number, or email address); 5) a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner; and 6) a statement that information in the complaint is accurate and that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner. Subsection B (17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3)(B)) states that if the complaining party does not substantially comply with these requirements the notice will not serve as actual notice for the purpose of Section 512.

List of sources

 Images at WPClipart are NOT taken from random sources or gleaned from newslists or random posts. Any questions raised about PD status are taken VERY seriously, researched and removed if there is ANY doubt. ALL SOURCES of images (not created by me) are listed below.

  Another use of the links is for those of you who may wish to use the clip art and photos 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 ------------------------------------------------

OpenClipart.org
http://www.openclipart.org
Content converted from SVG and sometimes further edited.
OpenClipart (OCAL) is THE premier user-submitted clip art site. Nearly one-third of WPClipart content was derived from OCAL. Some sites, such as ckler.com, have no original/edited content but for OCAL images.
[NOTE: on RARE ocassions materials submitted to OCAL are not really eligible for PD status. Checking out a user's other submissions will usually reveal this. Usually occurs when someone is looking for exposure but does not understand what releasing as PD really entails, or the budding artist edits and later submits something that is not PD to begin with...]
This is a great site -- the warning is just a heads-up not to blindly take PD status on faith when dealing with unknown submitters.

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

some of the Animal coloring pages and connect-the-dots
National Biological Information Infrastructure
http://images.nbii.gov/

USDA
National Wildlife Research Center
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/nwrc/publications/nwrc_index.shtml

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

Water cycle diagram from USGS
(Includes prints available in many other languages)
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html

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/

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

Mine Safety
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://visualsonline.cancer.gov/browse.cfm

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://www.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/portraits/index.html
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 NASAs Hubble Space Telescope
http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/sources/illustrations/constellations/

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

Federal Aviation Authority
http://www.faa.gov

Nicu's Clipart Collection
HEAVY contributer to OpenClipart
Awesome cartoons.
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

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

Antique Clipart
http://antiqueclipart.com/

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

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

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/

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

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

National Weather Service
Southern Region Headquarters
http://www.srh.weather.gov

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


--------------- Make from PD fonts: -----------------

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/


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

The Hand Book of Illustrated Proverbs
1857
by John W. Barber

Tales and Christmas Verse
by Eugene Field
illustrations by Florence Storer
Charles Scribner's sons, New York 1912

Johann Friedrich Naumann,
Natural history of the birds of central Europe
- Book from 1905

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

Elemental History of the United States
Allen C. Thomas, 1900

The Beginner's American History
D. H. Montgomery, 1893
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18127/18127-h/18127-h.htm

The North American Indian
Edward Sheriff Curtis
Publish 1907, 1908 (volumes 1 aqnd 2)
Most retrievd and edited from:
Northwestern University Digital Library Collections
http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/

FROM: National Library of Medicine--
site: http://www.nlm.nih.gov
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.

MANY BOOKS available at:
Gutenberg Christmas Bookshelf
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Christmas_(Bookshelf)

Twas the Night before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas
Clement C. Moore, Pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1912

A Little Book for Christmas
By Cyrus Townsend Brady
With Illustrations and Decorations by Will Crawford
G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press, 1917

YULE-TIDE IN MANY LANDS
BY MARY P. PRINGLE and CLARA A. URANN
illustrated by L. J. Bridgman
LOTHROP. LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON, 1916

The Merryvale Boys Christmas
BY ALICE HALE BURNETT
PICTURES BY CHARLES F. LESTER
American Authors Publishing Co. 1916

A Visit From Saint Nicholas
illustrated By F.O.C. Darley
James G. Gregory, publisher. New York, 1862

The Night Before Christmas
and other Popular Stories for Children
W. B. CONKEY COMPANY, Chicago 1903

A Defective Santa Claus
by James Whitcomb Riley
With Pictures by C. M. Relyea and Will Vater
the Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, Indianapolis, 1904

The Goblins' Christmas
by M. E. Anderson
Illustrated by Alexander Sharp
Segnogram Publishing Co. Los Angeles, 1908

The Lancashire Witches
A Romance of Pendle Forest
Creator Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882
Illus. by Peter Newell

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

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.


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

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No longer suggested

Corvette images:
images of an identify-able products were removed
(such is copyright law, at least in the Unitred States)
http://members.aol.com/licoa/graphics.htm#1953

KamsArt's collection of free clipart (WMF format)
NOT SUGGESTED
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.]
All images cited, despite lack of proof, were removed from WPClipart.
Part of Webarchive section
http://web.archive.org/web/20040918060853/http://www.kamsart.com/

Office Diversions
http://officediversions.com/
Claim all PD but the status of several images was questioned.
Although no proof of copyright was ever submitted I removed what was cited
along with other images I found there.
Not suggested

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 also suspect...
(They state as fact that the 2000 presidential election was rigged.)

free vector clipart
(Converted and edited from wmf format)
I had started editing some of these but the sources were
Undocumented and therefore images were not used.
http://www.clip-art.ru


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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 documented and 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 many images in the US History Section. A few items each are from Celine's and Watton. A few paintings, so far, are from the WebMuseum (A great site hosted by Ibiblio).

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

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.