Photo collections
Every photo in the index, by the archive collection it comes from and by decade. Each collection says why its photos are public domain, and each photo has its own licence basis and a credit line.
Library of Congress collections
- Bain News Service
20,067 photos
George Grantham Bain's New York agency was one of the first news photo services in the United States.
- National Photo Company
20,375 photos
Herbert E.
- Harris & Ewing
19,023 photos
The Washington, D.C.
- Carol M. Highsmith Archive
15,475 photos
Carol M.
- Detroit Publishing Company
1,949 photos
The Detroit Publishing Company made postcards, prints and photochroms from its photographers' negatives, many by William Henry Jackson: American cities and streets, landscapes, ships, hotels and resorts, from the 1890s to the 1920s.
- U.S. News & World Report
984 photos
Staff photographers of U.S.
- Library of Congress
1,678 photos
Photographs from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division that are not part of one of the named collections above.
US government photographers
- Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information
8,388 photos
Photographers of the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, among them Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott and Jack Delano, documented rural America in the Great Depression and the home front of the Second World War, from 1935 to 1944.
- U.S. National Archives
2,996 photos
Photographs from the U.S.
- Wikimedia Commons
10,715 photos
Public-domain photographs on Wikimedia Commons that are not from one of the archive collections above: the work of US military and government photographers, and older photos whose US copyright has expired.
NASA centers
- NASA Johnson Space Center
5,582 photos
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston trains the astronauts and runs Mission Control: crew portraits, spacewalk training, shuttle and space station missions.
- NASA Kennedy Space Center
2,691 photos
NASA's launch site on Florida's Space Coast: rockets on the pad and lifting off, space shuttle processing and landings, and the crews before launch.
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2,430 photos
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California builds and flies NASA's planetary missions: Mars rovers, the planets and moons they photographed, and the spacecraft themselves.
- NASA Headquarters
2,053 photos
NASA Headquarters photographers in Washington, D.C.
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
1,467 photos
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama develops the agency's rockets, from the Saturn V to the Space Launch System: engines, test stands and the people who built them.
- NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
792 photos
NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards, California flies the agency's experimental aircraft, from the early X-planes to today's research jets.
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
366 photos
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland builds and runs space telescopes and Earth-observing satellites.
- NASA Glenn Research Center
176 photos
NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio works on propulsion, power and aeronautics: engines, wind tunnels and test facilities.
- NASA Ames Research Center
173 photos
NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley works on aeronautics and space science: wind tunnels, aircraft and spacecraft research.
- NASA Langley Research Center
113 photos
NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia is the agency's oldest center: aeronautics research, wind tunnels and test aircraft.
- NASA Michoud Assembly Facility
68 photos
NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans builds large rocket stages, among them the core stage of the Space Launch System.
- NASA Stennis Space Center
37 photos
NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi is where the agency tests its rocket engines.