The Fantastic in Art & Fiction – Sponsored by Cornell University’s Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC) this image-bank provides a visual resource for the study of the Fantastic or of the supernatural in fiction and in art.
A History of the World – The British Museum and BBC uses objects to tell a history of the world.
Shooting in a Dust Storm – Cameraman Bob Poole was filming elephants with ease — until a giant dust storm rose up and swallowed all the light.
Wikiquote – the free quote compendium that anyone can edit.
HHMI’s Virtual Museum – Stroll through exhibits on biological clocks, infectious diseases, cardiology, and neuroscience at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s online museum.
List of Colors – a comprehensive list of colors at Wikipedia.
Image Searches – for use with blogs, web pages, etc. (make sure to check for creative commons license or other conditions – images posted on line are NOT free for the taking just because they’ve been posted.
Compfight is an image search engine tailored to efficiently locate images for blogs, comps, inspiration, and research. We make good use of the flickr™ API, but aren’t affiliated with flickr.
everystockphoto.com – search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific.
Freerange Stock was formed with the goal to provide quality stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use. For free.
search.creativecommons.org is not a search engine, but rather offers convenient access to search services provided by other independent organizations.
