Category Archives: Creative Commons Sources

Folger Shakespeare Library luna collection

https://www.folger.edu/

https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/FOLGERCM1~6~6

All of the images in the Luna collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library, unless under a non-Folger copyright, are  available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License  (CC BY-SA 4.0). Image collections include bas relief, book bindings, book illustrations, first folios, manuscripts, microfilm, and reference. In addition to Shakespeare first folio images, one can browse theater records, medicinal and cookery recipes, and illustrations from An entire body of philosophy, according to the principles of the famous Renate Des Cartes,

Image from Records of Drury Lane Theatre [manuscript], 1766-1880. Folger Shakespeare Library.

The metropolitan museum of art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/image-resources

While not all of the images in the Metropolitan Museum of Art are in the Public Domain, in 2017 the museum announced their Open Access policy, which makes images believed to be in the public domain available for unrestricted up by the public under the Creative Commons Zero designation. The images can be searched through 20 thematic sets that include the following topics: Masterpiece paintings, cats, Monsters and Mythological Creature, Post-Impressionism, Vincent van Gogh, Arms and Armor, Tiffany Glass, and Dishes, including a terracotta plate from Ca. 520-510 BCE. Images that fall under their Open Access policy are clearly marked with an “OA” in the lower left-hand corner of the image.

Terracotta plate. Signed by Epiktetos as painter. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

NASA on the commons

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/with/29214887956/

https://www.flickr.com/people/nasacommons/

With NASA on the Commons, NASA has made available hundreds of thousands of photographs, videos, and audio files to engage the public in the history and work of the space agency. One can search through photographs of people, from engineers to astronauts, rockets and rovers, photographs of space from earth, and photographs of earth from space. The images cover the entire history of the space program as well as its precedents in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1915. Also included are images from the Soviet and Russian space programs including patches and photos of Cosmonauts like Yuri Gagarin.

Driving on the Descartes. Apollo 16 mission. April 23, 1972