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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.

Why they are free to use: Each photo's page says why it is public domain and which Commons licence category it was read from. Each photo's page shows its own licence basis and a credit line.

10,716 photos in the index, by decade:

The 1830s

All 21 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1830s

The 1840s

All 19 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1840s

The 1850s

All 28 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1850s

The 1860s

All 609 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1860s

The 1870s

All 26 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1870s

The 1880s

All 64 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1880s

The 1890s

All 574 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1890s

The 1900s

All 442 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1900s

The 1910s

All 1,467 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1910s

The 1920s

All 1,165 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1920s

The 1930s

All 2,021 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1930s

The 1940s

All 879 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1940s

The 1950s

All 356 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1950s

The 1960s

All 994 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1960s

The 1970s

All 352 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1970s

The 1980s

All 44 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1980s

The 1990s

All 193 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1990s

The 2000s

All 180 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 2000s

The 2010s

All 452 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 2010s

The 2020s

All 830 Wikimedia Commons photos from the 2020s

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