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Public Domain and Creative Commons Still Images

Creative Commons Search  - "CC Search searches images across 19 collections pulled from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset, including cultural works from museums (the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art), graphic designs and art works (Behance, DeviantArt), photos from Flickr, and an initial set of CC0 3D designs from Thingiverse."
 
picryl - GetArchive collection of public domain content, mostly images with some videos.  "GetArchive created PICRYL to make the world's public domain media available to anyone, anywhere, anytime, on any device. PICRYL already provides access to millions of public domain objects and growing."

Pixnio – A large collection of high resolution public domain images. Free for personal and commercial use, no attribution required.

Smithsonian Institution – Open Access – 2+ million free, downloadable public domain images from the Smithsonian's collections, no permission required.

The Met collection - Explore more than 406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, all of which can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction.

Public Domain Image Resources - Wikipedia-maintained page of public domain image resources, with many specialized collections.  Note that not all of the sites listed contain content that is exclusively in the public domain.

Pixabay- Royalty-free images.

Unsplash - Freely usable images.