Images: science & technology images

Photos of the universe, solar system, Earth, and more

Historical medical illustrations

167 images of medical & surgical equipment

Every catalog, reproduced online. Amazing diagrams & illustrations!

"The Science and Society Picture Library represent the visual content of the National Museums of Science and Industry. Our trio of museums are London's Science Museum, the National Railway Museum and the National Media Museum."

National Image Library. Public domain still photographs from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Includes both high resolution and low resolution images.

Photographic images are from U.S. government agencies including the National Ocean Service; the National Weather Service; the National Marine Fisheries Service; the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research; and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. Images include weather and space; shores and coastal seas; and marine species ranging from the great whales to the most minute plankton. Includes photos from the early nineteenth century.

The University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh has digitized and mounted online its rare and complete set of John James Audubon’s Birds of America. Each of the 435 plates link to their respective narrative within Audubon’s companion publication, his Ornithological Biography, also digitized as part of this project. No other complete set of the double elephant folio edition of the Birds of America is publicly available online in such high detail.

A database of animal sounds & videos.

The United States National Herbarium was founded in 1848, when the first collections were accessioned from the United States Exploring Expedition (50,000 specimens of 10,000 species). Current holdings total 5 million specimens, making this collection among the ten largest in the world representing about 8% of the plant collection resources of the United States. The herbarium is especially rich in type specimens (@110,000).

Thousands of beautiful botanical images.