List of online image archives

This is an incomplete list of notable online image archives, including both image hosting websites, and archives hosted by libraries and other academic or historical institutions.

Site	Type	Number of Images	Video	Sound	Search	Languages
Adobe Stock	Stock Images	366,000,000+ (January 2025)^[1]	Yes	No	Yes	English, French
Alamy	Stock Images	95,000,000+	Yes	No	Yes	English (Default)+ German
ArenaPAL Performing Arts Image Library	Performing Arts	5,000,000+	No	No	Yes	English
Artstor Digital Library
Associated Press AP Images	Rights Managed	12,000,000+	Yes	No	Yes	English
Bridgeman Art Library
California Digital Library
California State University, Northridge, Oviatt Library Digital Collections
Camera Press
Chicago Daily News (1902–1933), collection of over 55,000 images on glass plate negatives
Depositphotos	Stock Images	164,000,000+ (June 2020)	Yes	No	Yes	English (Default)+ 21 other languages
Europeana
Flickr	Commons		Yes	No	No	English (Default) + 9 other languages
Frick Digital Image Archive
Geograph Britain and Ireland	Commons	7,900,000+ (March 2025)^[2]	No	No	Yes	English
Getty Images IStock Thinkstock
Harvard Library
Internet Archive		5.13 million (March 2025)^[3]	Yes	Yes	Yes
Library of Congress	Public domain
Life (magazine)
Nationaal Archief (1945–1989) collection of over 400,000 (Dutch) press-images	Commons	approximately 400,000	No	No	Yes	Dutch (Default)+ English
National Geographic Image Collection (1888–present), collection of more than 10 million digital images, transparencies, b&w prints, early auto chromes, and pieces of original artwork
New York Daily News (1880–2007), online photo archive DailyNewsPix, with photographs dating back to 1880
New York Public Library	≈ 30% Public domain	922,400+ (May 2024)^[4]	No	No	Yes	English
Pexels	Pexels license		Yes	No	Yes
Pixabay	Pixabay license	950,000+ (May 2017)	Yes	No	Yes	English (Default) + 25 other languages
Pond5	Royalty-free	11,000,000+ (Jan 2017)	Yes	Yes	Yes	English (Default) + 7 other languages
Smithsonian Institution / Smithsonian Open Access		4,400,000+ (Jan 2023)
Shutterstock^[5]	Royalty-free	450,000,000+ (March 2025)^[6]	Yes	Yes	Yes	English (Default) + 19 other languages
The New York Times	Rights Managed	5,000,000+	Yes	No	Yes	English
Time	Rights Managed	1,000,000+	Yes	No	Yes	English
United Press International (1907–2007)
United States National Library of Medicine, images from the history of medicine
University of Southern California Libraries
Unsplash	Commons with additional restrictions^[7]	1,000,000+ (2020)	No	No	Yes	English
Wikimedia Commons	Commons	116,000,000+ (March 2025)^[8]	Yes	Yes	Yes	English (Default) + other languages

List of online image archives

List of archives

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