History 4815/7815 - African History Through the Digital Medium: Images and Video

Creative Commons increases "the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing." In other words, these are images that you can use for projects, presentations, etc., often with the only restriction being that you list the creator's name. Try searching the flickr tab for keywords like "viking," "viking history," "Iceland," "Viking ship," "Norway history" etc.

Lists sites for government-produced images and other public domain image sources

Over 250,000 images of items in Yale's museum collections, available, with no license required for use.

These digitized photographs have been made available solely for non-commercial research, teaching and private study. Northwestern University does not claim any copyright interest in these photographs. Publication and use inquiries must be directed to africana@northwestern.edu.

Online exhibit contains photos but also sound files with traditional music and spoken Swahili poetry.

Search or browse for films by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350 of the most important films in the catalogue are presented with extensive critical notes. Noncommercial reuse is allowed.