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Travel Images

A global collection of images from almost every country in the world... Get a feel for the local highlights, culture and scenic marvels spanning the entire globe. An ambitious project, and at this posting boasting 12,000 images from over 300 countries.
Travel-Images.com - The Global Image Bank.

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The Hubble Project - Image Gallery

Every day, Hubble archives 3 to 5 gigabytes of image data and delivers 3 times that to astronomers all over the world... but you don't have to be an astronomer to appreciate this amazing choice of Hubble photographs of space, stars and galaxies from 1990 to the present.
The Hubble Project - Image Gallery.

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NY Public Library Photograph Archive

Really much more than just a single collection, the NYPL hosts two major archives of stock images and popular archival photographs of New York City and the Atlantic region.

Digital Library Collections
Links to the NYPL Digital Gallery, the Picture Collection Online, and other collections which include thousands of images of New York City.

Popular Images
Some of the Library’s most popular images plus a sampling of photographs not found in the Digital Library Collections.

Access to all these image collections and historic photograph exhibits begins after a short image licencing tour.
New York Public Library Photograph Archive.

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NASA Image Gallery

Download amazing new images like this satellite photograph of Alaska (3.6 Mb) from the Multimedia Image Gallery at NASA. Free images from outer space posted weekly.
NASA Image Gallery.

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FEMA Photo Library

Find disaster photos and video tapes from FEMA's Photo Libaray... 7553 photographs at last visit, that you search by keyword ("World Trade Center", "tornado", "earthquake", etc.). Free high-resolution images are available.
FEMA Photo Library.

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