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 don't want folks to copy the collection to repost online (basically mirroring my site.) I spend a lot of time finding, researching copyright status and editing/retouching as well as donating hundreds of my own images, so I believe that should warrant some consideration.

• You CAN modify any of the images in any way you wish.
• You CAN use the images in your own work, both personal and commercial.
• You CAN use the images, altered or not, for any printed work.
• You CAN use one or several of the images on websites
  (for school, personal or even commercial use... see below.)
• You SHOULD NOT redistribute (as a collection) a lot of the images online.

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 this collection for my kids to use on Linux with AbiWord. (That's why, many years ago, the collection was originally called AbiClipart.)

First and foremost, the clipart was made as a resource for school kids and others to use without fear of copyright infringement or the risk of running into all sorts of "inappropriate" pictures when searching the web for graphics.

Uploading of images by visitors is Not Allowed. There is a risk that uploads of this kind may not be appropriate or may not truly be public domain. (Thus defeating the very purpose of the collection.)

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
	628 N Main Ave
	Erwin, TN 37650
	

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

 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.



http://www.openclipart.org
Content converted from SVG and sometimes further edited.
OpenClipart (OCAL) is THE premier user-submitted clip art site. Over one-fourth of WPClipart content was derived from OCAL. Some sites, (who will remain nameless, since I don't think I am able to name them all in one place...) have no original/edited content but for OCAL images.

This is a great site, but don't blindly take Public Domain status of all images on faith when dealing with unknown submitters. This warning goes for ANY site that has folks upload their images for them.

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/

University of Washington Digital Collection:
http://content.lib.washington.edu/index.html
Materials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed.

Ducks at a Distance
A Waterfowl Identification Guide
By Bob Hines
Department of the Interior
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Washington, D.C. 1978
Available from Project Gutenberg atr:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18884

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

PAT Maps
Ian Macky made these nice public domain country maps and let me know about them in Feb. 2011. Excellent job! PAT scripts as well as the maps themselves are all also downloadable as a package.

Symbol Signs:
http://www.aiga.org/symbol-signs/
This system of 50 symbol signs was designed for use at the crossroads of modern life: in airports and other transportation hubs and at large international events. Produced through a collaboration between AIGA and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), they are an example of how public-minded designers can address a universal communication need.

United States Mint
http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/?action=photo

Large denominations of United States currency
Large denominations of US currency at Wikipedia

Free Clip Art (Squidoo Site)
by Summer Fey Foovay

http://www.squidoo.com/free_clip_art
All her original clip art here was released into the public domain,
but only clip still viewable was "Santa Girl with Gift."

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/

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

Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility
http://remf.dartmouth.edu/imagesindex.html

National Cancer Institute - Visuals Online
http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/browse.cfm

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

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

PD Photos contributed by:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Evan-Amos

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/

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/

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/

NASA educational materials:
The Space Educator's Handbook
http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh

Universal newsreels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Newsreel

Amelia Earhart just prior to last flight in 1937 (Universal newsreel):
http://www.archive.org/details/CEP_00_030

New York World-Telegram & Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html

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

NASA publications:
Exploring Meteorite Mysteries pdf 15-Sep-1999
Our Mission to Planet Earth pdf 15-Sep-1999

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

National Institute of Mental Health
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"is one among ten U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories managed by DOE's Office of Science."
http://picturethis.pnl.gov/
Science/educational materials

Pre-1923 vintage postcards by:
Ellen Clapsaddle
Frances Brundage

Hansendo D3 Studio
Vectorized graphics from Japanese artists
http://hansendo.com/resources

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

Large collection of donated lineart (donated Spring of 2007):
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Pearson_Scott_Foresman

WikiVoc project, which plans to eventually provide
a large set of good and clear SVG images allowing
Illustrated Dictionary creation.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiVoc

Tango icon theme. They get my standing applause.
"The people from the Tango Project"
release their creations into the Public Domain.
(It's why I use their icon theme on Absolute Linux!)
The Tango website is located at:
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project




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

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

Animal Children
by Edith Brown Kirkwood
Drawings by M.T. Ross
1913 - P.F. Volland & Company

Tame Animals
George Routledge and Sons,
London and New York.
Kronheim & Co., London

The Life of Animals
by A. E. Brehm
1895

Coloured figures of the birds of the British Islands
issued by Lord Lilford
Published in London by R. H. Porter
1885-1887 (7 volumes)

Birds by Louis Agassiz Fuertes appearing in:
National Geographic Magazine
April 1917

Plant illustrations by Mary E. Eaton appearing in:
National Geographic Magazine
June 1917

Life-histories of northern animals
1909
New York City : Scribner
Ernest Thompson Seton

The story of a cat
by T. B. Aldrich
designs in silhouette by Hopk
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston 1906

Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous.
edited by Julius A. Palmer, Jr.
Published By L. Prang & CO., Boston.
copyright, 1885. By L. Prang & CO.

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

Grimm Tales Made Gay by Guy Wetmore Carryl
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23024

On the Trail, An Outdoor Book for Girls
by Lina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard
With Illustrations by the Authors
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915

Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear
or
Ten-Minute Talks With Colored Chalks
B. J. Griswold
Meigs Publishing Company
1913, First Reprint 1918

Lloyd's Natural History:
A hand-book to the Carnivora. Part 1, Cats, civets, and mungoose
Illustrated by Richard Lydekker
Wyman & Sons Limited, 1896

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
Robert A. Sterndale
1884
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19550/19550-h/19550-h.htm#ill072

Harry's Ladder to Learning
Publishers:
David Bogue, 86 Fleet St. and Joseph Cundall, 21 Old Bond St.
1850
Ward, Lock, & Tyler
1869

Ten American Girls Fropm History
by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
illustrated by George Alfred Williams
Copyright, 1917, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published October, 1917

Natural history of the birds of central Europe
by Johann Friedrich Naumann,
1905


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

Beginner's American History
by D. H. Montgomery
Ginn and CompanyBoston 1893

The History of Cuba
by Willis Fletcher Johnson
B.F. Buck and Company, Inc. New York 1920

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

History of the United States
From the Earliest Discovery of America to the Present Time
by Benjamin Andrews
Charles Scribner's and Sons, NY 1912

Exploration of the World
by Jules Verne
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London 1882 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 retrieved 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.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain
illustrations by E.W.Kemble, 1885

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.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments
illustrated by Milo Winter
Rand McNally & Company, 1914
on project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19860

The Water Babies
by Charles Kingsley
Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916

A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
illustrations by John Leech
Chapman & Hall 1847

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.

Great African Travellers
From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley
by W.H.G. Kingston

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

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

Scouting for Boy
Author: Lieut. Gen. Baden Powell C.B.
Publication Information: Horace Cox, UK - 1908

--------------- 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/


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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

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. For more detailed information regarding paintings and Public Domain status see
the legal case from 1999:
Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.

And for a good discussion of paintings, museums and copyrights see:
Photographs of Public Domain Paintings
by law professor A Reese.