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Once you create a free account with Artstor, you can download images as JPEG files or groups of images as a PowerPoint (PPT) file. But be careful, each image in Artstor has it's own rights section in the image details.

Image credit: Lange, Dorthea. Abandoned Dust Bowl Home. 1935-1940. J. Paul Getty Museum, www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/128362/dorothea-lange-abandoned-dust-bowl-home-american-about-1935-1940/.

Made available from Getty's Open Content Program. See Below.

Statista

Statista This link opens in a new window One of the leading statistics companies on the internet; categorized into 21 market sectors, provides direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.

Statista allows you to download charts, graphs and infographics as PowerPoint, PNG, PDF, and Excel files.

Find Open Images

Flickr: Creative Commons
Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.
Finding Diverse Images
List of sites featuring images of people who portray racial, ethnic, gender, and abled diversity.
Getty Search Gateway | Open Content Images
The Getty Museum makes freely available all of the images to which they hold the rights or in the public domain. Read more about this project. They ask that you use this credit when using a digital image: Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.
Google's Advanced Image Search
At the bottom of the page, select the drop down menu "usage rights" to search images free to use.
Library of Congress Images
Images from the Library of Congress, now in the public domain.
Morguefile.com
Over 380,000 high quality, high resolution photos. Free for commercial use. No attribution required.
Noun Project - Icons for Everything
The Noun Project is a collection of openly licensed icons. Most icons can be downloaded as both .PNG or .SVG files. All icons can be downloaded free of copyright for a small fee (usually a couple dollars), or free of charge under the terms of a Creative Commons license. Note that when an icon is downloaded free of charge, the illustrator's name is in the lower left corner of the image. Attribution must still be given in an appropriate place near the use of the image.
Open Clipart Library
Public domain contemporary graphics contributed by users.
Pixabay.com
Over 1.4 million royalty free stock photos and videos shared by a generous community of contributors.
Wikimedia Commons
A collection of over 44,000,000 freely available media files to which anyone can use and contribute.

Image credit: Ferrum College CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Find Credible Statistics Online

Gallup: Analytics and Advice
Solve your most pressing problems. Through analytics and advice, we help leaders unlock the full potential of individuals, teams and organizations.
Pew Research Center | Topics
A detailed listing of Pew Research Center polling and demographic topics and subjects.
U.S. Census Bureau
The leading source of quality data about U.S. people, business and economy.

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