Page content¶
Directories¶
- Awesome Stock Resources: a curated list of stock photography, video and illustration websites
- Wikimedia Commons: a large database of freely usable media files (images, sounds, videos)
Free images¶
General¶
- ImageNet: image database organized according to the WordNet hierarchy (image-net.org)
- Open Images: dataset of ~9 million URLs to images that have been annotated with labels and bounding boxes spanning thousands categories (github.com)
- Flickr: CC-licensed content for commercial use on Flickr
- Unsplash: free high-resolution photos, also available via Unsplash API (also see documentation)
- Random Image Generators (thisiskelv.in)
- 11k Hands: a large dataset of hand images
Art and history¶
- Museum of Modern Art Exhibition History: from 1929 to the present
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection
- New York Public Library Public Domain Images
- The Behance Artistic Media Dataset: Automatically-labeled binary attribute scores for over 2.5 million images across 20 attributes each, and more (bam-dataset.org)
- National Gallery of Art Images: 35,000 works of art from the National Gallery, including masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt, and more
- Smithsonian: 40,000 works of Asian and American art, can be used for all non-commercial purposes
- The Morgan Library & Museum: Rembrandt Prints
- The Vatican Library: manuscripts, books, coins, and more
Illustrations and drawings¶
- googlecreativelab/quickdraw-dataset: collection of 50 million drawings across 345 categories, contributed by players of the game Quick, Draw!
- Old Book Illustrations: illustrations from old books; this very site uses it extensively!
- Clipart: free clipart images
- The Digital Comic Museum: public domain Golden Age Comics
- Amazing Stories: the world’s first science fiction magazine, launched in 1926 (archive.org)
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Pomological Watercolor Collection: 7,584 watercolor paintings, lithographs and line drawings, including 3,807 images of apples
- @pomological tweets these images randomly
- Reusable simple drawings (thedoodlelibrary.com)
Film and TV¶
Maps, history¶
- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: over 67,000 images of 16th through 21st century maps of America, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific and the World (davidrumsey.com)
- State Library of New South Wales: Open Data: see the DATASETS tab for maps, posters, and more
Political¶
- Political Posters, Labadie Collection, University of Michigan: 2,200 radical political posters
- French Revolution Digital Archive: 14,000 images of the French Revolution
Scientific¶
- Project Apollo Archive: more than 8,400 high-resolution photographs taken by Apollo astronauts during trips to the moon
- Wellcome Images: a medical picture library and the world’s leading source of images on medicine and its history
- ECUSTFD: a food image dataset (2900+ images) for evaluating computer vision-based methods (github.com)
- udacity/self-driving-car: image frames from car-mounted cameras, and information about latitude, longitude, gear, brake, throttle, steering angles and speed
Nature¶
- Visual Geometry Group: Oxford-IIIT Pet Dataset: a 37 category pet dataset with roughly 200 images for each class (robots.ox.ac.uk)
Free videos¶
These are not always downloadable, but you can at least freely link to them.
General¶
- AP Archive: the film and video archive of The Associated Press
- Kinetics: a large-scale, high-quality dataset of YouTube video URLs which include a diverse range of human focused actions (deepmind.com)
- Beachfront B-Roll: HD stock video footage and animated backgrounds
- mazwai.com: a small collection of stock videos
- coverr.co: more stock videos
- videvo.net: over 29k high quality videos, many of which are Creative Commons BY 3.0
History, news¶
- British Pathé: historical footage
- British Movietone: newsreel archive, spanning the period 1895 to 1986
- The Local News: An Archive: a large collection of samples of local news programs and broadcasting styles over the decades (archive.org)
Nature¶
- Macaulay Library: archive of wildlife sounds and videos
Space¶
- NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center: hours of aerospace history (youtube.com)
Free audio¶
General¶
- AudioSet: A large-scale dataset of manually annotated audio events
- The NSynth Dataset: Large-scale and high-quality dataset of annotated musical notes
- freesound4s: 126,900 sounds on Freesound less than 4 seconds long
- IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music (imslp.org)
- Old Time Radio Researchers Library: more than 85,000 individual episodes from nearly 2,000 series
- BBC Sound Effects Archive Resource: a collection of 16,000 sound effects (bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk)
- BitMidi: 100,000+ MIDI files curated by volunteers (bitmidi.com)
Nature¶
- Audio Cats and Dogs (kaggle.com)
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