Looking for an unusual and personal gift idea, or something special for your walls?
Over the years we’ve collected some resources for clients looking for public domain fine art and historical images for us to print for them on archival papers.
Below are links to sites where you may search for and find high resolution files to download and have us archivally print including historical maps, fine art, photographs, space images, posters, and more.
If you browse through, and there’s something you’d like us to print—you can either download the high resolution file (sometimes listed as original size) and send it to us or email us the URL so we can download the highest resolution file. We’ll work with you to find a size that fits with the image’s proportions, and help you choose the best paper surface or canvas.
Links are presented as a resource, and we are in no way affiliated with these institutions.
Audubon’s Birds of America
High-resolution files of all 435 images from Audubon’s lushly illustrated book Birds of America
Birds of America
Flickr Commons
Public domain treasures from some of the world’s greatest archives and institutions including the Smithsonian and British Museum. There’s a search bar where you can type in a keyword to get started browsing.
Treasures from Flickr Commons
Library of Congress
Photographs, WPA posters and photographs, antique maps (it’s fun to check out your hometown, your current city, where you went to school), advertising images
A selection of free-to-use images from the LOC
Browse the LOC’s entire collection
NASA Image and Video Library
Space walks, astronauts, and celestial bodies, oh my!
NASA's Image Archive
Open Access Maps at the New York Public Library
Please read through instructions to make sure you are in the site that has high-resolution images for free. There might be links that take you to other maps that might cost money to download.
NYPL Open Access Maps
Wikimedia Commons
There are tons of images without usage restrictions on Wikipedia. This is a selection of category links to get you started, including the Google Art Project, through which you can download high-resolution images of some of the world’s most famous works of art.
Paintings
Drawings
Photographs
Google Art Project