List of Free Image Resources

 List of Free Image Resources

I will keep this list updated and anyone that would like to share a site please email me at emmasmom432@gmail.com I would love to check it out and add it to the list! I will also credit you on the list with a link to your blog, credit will look like this:

link to resource  (shared by your name @ link to your blog)
Thanks for sharing!

Amy
Awesome, awesome site full of such wonderful and colorful ephemera, I suggest you go take a peek yourself.
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Yes, World Label is a real label business but they are also into the free printables business, which I love, they have tags and labels and all kinds of wonderful printables on their site!
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They provide free, public domain/out-of-copyright images for you to print or download. Most of the images are vintage naturalist or scientific illustration, but there are loads of other images, too!
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This is the description placed on this site: Welcome to Call Me Victorian! This site has my free vintage inspired printables, clipart, images, and digital scrapbooking ephemera. 
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Wonderful site full of old photos, great if you have any photo editing software like Corel or Adobe.
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This site has a large selection of free vintage images and clipart.
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A media file repository that makes available public domain photos and a lot of other types of images.
You do have to search for vintage images but it is well worth it the images I have found are wonderful!
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This is just a small sampling of free digital collages that the seller offers to entice you to buy their digital collage sheet that are for sale.
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This website is full of free images for non-commercial use but they are mostly newer images. However there are great images to use as backgrounds for your altered art in my opinion.
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This website has free non-commercial texture backgrounds.
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This is a searchable database of the digital media made available by The Smithsonian for personal or educational purposes only so basically any non-commercial use. Just click on the explore digital media link.
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This is exactly what the name suggests an online picture collection. This is a wonderful collection and I have printed many images from this site. The images are free for personal use.
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This website has some awesome stuff, i.e. photos, images, digital collage sheets, textures, backgrounds, and templates not to mention it is all free for non commercial use. 
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This website offers a small collection of vintage images available for non-commercial use.
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This blog has many free images but has not been updated since 2011 but still has a great collection of images.
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Lovely blog full of wonderful free images and backgrounds.
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This blog has not been updated since February of 2012 but it has a wonderful small collection of free images.
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Another great blog full of images I discovered this blog after I bought some of her wonderful images from her Etsy shop. You simply must check it out!
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Another blog full of wonderful images.
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This resource is chock full of lovely images. I adore quite a bit of them!
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This website is unbelievably full of awesomeness and that is no joke if you check out just a few on this list this should definitely be one of them.
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This is actually a free e-book site but some of these books contain some pretty cool images. Finding images does require a bit of searching and can be a long process but I have found some great images on this site, so I am going to share a few instead of just one to show you it is worth it to search.
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Good website for public domain images particularly those dealing with fashion.
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A wonderful site full of wonderful images. Another must not miss!
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Great blog full of free vintage images and wonderful backgrounds.
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A wonderful blog by Inka whom I discovered after I bought some collage sheets in her Etsy store and after my purchase she directed me to her blog where she has wonderful free printables. And while you are there check out her wildly awesome tutorials on how to create some really cool altered art pieces!
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A blog full of great images.
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A blog with antique images and free vector format sheets.
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A great blog full of vintage images for free personal use.
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Lovely images from yep you guessed it EK Duncan.
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Wonderful site by a wonderful lady. Even though it hasn't been updated since March, Kim is a very busy lady, there is plenty of wonderful images to play around with.
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Great free images at this blog. But you must check it out for yourself because the author of the blog asks not to just copy and paste the free images offered on to any other blog or website in full image form so no example for this one.

Wonderful blog full of free digital printables made by the author.
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Yes again another wonderful blog with freebies bet you didn't know there was so many out there and my list barely scratches the surface.
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Antique and Vintage Imagery, enough said.
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Beautiful images, free for personal use.
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Free hi res images, fonts, textures and lots of other fun things to play around with!
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This is an awesome group on Flickr who's members assembles the collage sheets and posts them for us all to use. There is a little bit of everything available on this site.
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No list of free images would be complete without Karen's blog full of such wonderful free images. If you don't know about it, which most of us in the altered art world do, then you definitely should put this at the top of your to do list.
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and this is what I made from this lovely sepia photo:




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