WELCOME! :: You have arrived at the main page for my public domain images. What started out as as small gift to people viewing my art work has become a huge labor of love. On the following pages you will find hundreds of beautiful images gleaned from my collection of old books, magazines, and postcards. They are all from material printed prior to 1923 and are in the public domain.

TERMS OF USE :: I hope you will enjoy using these pictures. You are free to use them in your artistic endeavors, either privately or commercially. My only request is that you not sell or give away the images themselves either individually or as a collection. I spend a lot of time searching for and buying the source material, scanning, fixing, and editing the images, and then putting them on the web. By respecting these simple terms of use, you allow me to continue providing wonderful artwork that would remain hidden between the covers of these books, decayed from age, or tossed into landfills. Read the details of my Terms of Use for more information.

LINK BACK :: Although not required, if you do find these images helpful, a link or footnote back to this page would be appreciated:
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SITE MAP :: Listed below are the most recent public domain images. If you need a complete, detailed list of all the images available on this site, please go to my Site Map for Public Domain Images. Otherwise, use the menu on the left to find what you're looking for or the search box below. Also, if you're looking for something in particular that you are unable to find, send me an email, and I'll see what I can do.

Keep checking back. Public domain images are added regularly. Enjoy!

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Public Domain Images :: Spring Flowers

On this page of Spring Flowers you'll find pink and yellow roses, blue and white flowers, lilacs and geraniums, and birds fluttering about.

Public Domain Images :: Pictures of Flowers

These Pictures of Flowers contain pink daisies, purple and white pansies, a lovely pink rose, yellow daffodils and more pink flowers.

Public Domain Images :: Pretty Flowers

You'll love all these Pretty Flowers: violets, a basket of heart-shaped flowers, an iceland poppy, a cute little maid holding a bunch of daisies, a girl holding a basket of purple pansies, and a little angel in a bouquet of purple flowers.

Public Domain Images :: Flower Graphics

This page of Flower Graphics contains an image of a child holding a bunch of giant pansies, a branch of pink blossoms, red and pink carnations, white lilies, and other pink, purple, and orange flowers.

Public Domain Images :: Floral Design

A variety of Floral Designs await you on this page. There are pink roses tied up with a blue ribbon, pink and burgandy chrysanthemums, pink and red rose vines climbing a white ladder, rust and yellow pansies, pink and red carnations, and a blue flower on a white and gold design.

Public Domain Images :: Flower Drawings

Pink roses, pink carnations with little blue flowers, red roses with birds singing, pink flowers around a countryside vignette, and more pink and blue flowers are on this page of Flower Drawings.

Public Domain Images :: Floral Arrangements

Six different Floral Arrangements include a heart-shaped design of birds with a basket of pink daisies, a hanging basket of pink daisies tied up with yellow ribbons, a bowl of pansies, birds pulling a basket of pink and red flowers, a hanging basket of pink roses, and a delightful bouquet of daffodils, roses, and little blue flowers.

Public Domain Images :: Flower Arrangements

A white flower basket filled with red roses, a cluster of pink roses with lily of the valley, a bouquet of daisies, morning glories, and pansies, a little angel in a bouquet of pink roses, pink and red roses with lily of the valley and ferns in a basket with a dove, and a hand full of yellow and purple crocuses complete this group of beautiful Flower Arrangements .

Public Domain Images :: Birthday Flowers

Here are six images of Birthday Flowers consisting of a variety of wonderful flowers surrounding birthday greetings.

Public Domain Images :: Tulips

If you love Tulips you'll love this assortment of tulips in all colors, shapes, and sizes.

Public Domain Images :: Daisies

And here's a page full of wonderful Daisies.

Public Domain Images :: Purple Flowers

Who wouldn't be enamored with the violets, lilacs, pansies and other Purple Flowers to be found on this page?

Public Domain Images :: Pictures of Fish

A Spanish Mackerel, a regular mackerel, a bluefish, porgy, herring, and codfish are all represented on this page of colored Pictures of Fish.

Public Domain Images :: Ocean Fish

This page of Ocean Fish has six color pictures of a sardine, sawfish, salmon, sunfish, blowfish, and moonfish.

Public Domain Images :: Fish Clipart

On this page of Fish Clipart you'll find six color pictures of a carp, yellow perch, brook trout, striped bass, butterfish, and gold fish.

Public Domain Images :: Types of Fish

If you need some more color images of different Types of Fish you'll find six images of shad, catfish, sea robin, swordfish, perch, and sea bass.

Public Domain Images :: Fish Species

Here you'll find a great assortment of engravings of a variety of Fish Species including fishes from the perch family, carp family, pike family, flat fish family, salmon and trout family, and other spine-rayed fishes.

Public Domain Images :: Fish Drawings

On this page of Fish Drawings you'll see more spine-rayed fish, a butterfly and gattoruginous blenny (that's a mouth full!), fish from the cod, herring, and pichard families, a blue striped wrasse, trumpet fish, American tautog, and a crappie.

Public Domain Images :: Fish Pictures

A dory, pilot fish, beaked chelmon, yellow-barbed perch, flying gunard, and a flying fish can all be found on this page of Fish Pictures.

Public Domain Images :: Jellyfish

This page shows various images of beautiful Jellyfish with exotic names such as favonia octonems, chrysaora lutea, pelagia labicha, dianaea, and thaumatias cymbaloidea. Say one of those five times fast!

Public Domain Images :: Types of Jellyfish

If you need more Types of Jellyfish you'll find the lymnorea triedra, charybdaea periphylla, tima flavilabris, rhizostoma cuvieri, and the ever-popular aequorea cyanea on this page.

Public Domain Images :: Pictures of Birds

Here are six colorful Pictures of Birds, including the sepoy finch, red-headed bunting, Chinese bulbul, canary bird, Brazilian tanager, and a bell-bird.

Public Domain Images :: Types of Birds

This set of images of Types of Birds include an orchard oriole, a blue bullfinch, a java grosbeak, a nightingale, a rose-breasted grosbeak, and a painted bunting.

Public Domain Images :: Wild Birds

Here's a delightful page of Wild Birds featuring color images of a golden oriole, swallow dicaeum, parrot finch, stitch bird, araguira, and a whistling thrush.

Public Domain Images :: Bird Nests

If you love Bird Nests as much as I do, you'll be thrilled with these engravings of nests belonging to the capocier, sedge-warbler, butcher-bird, pine-pine, pino-pine, reed bunting, and tailor bird.

Public Domain Images :: Bird of Paradise

We used to have a Bird of Paradise growing in our atrium when I was a little girl, but that was a plant! Here are the flying kind-- the magnificient bird of paradise, the golden bird of paradise, the emerald bird of paradise and the king birds of paradise.