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Type what you're looking for. Every link below opens that site's results already narrowed to pictures the paper can actually print.
Grab the biggest download. Under about 1,000 pixels wide, a photo only works small.
Send Chris the page link, not the picture, so the credit and rights stay with it.
Skip anything that looks AI-made. The Chief doesn't run AI images.
Best for Old News, anniversaries and Oklahoma history.
Dust Bowl and small-town Oklahoma, oil fields, old postcards. Huge TIFF downloads.
Check "Rights Advisory" on each photo. Credit: Library of Congress + the LC number.
Government photos: Osage Agency, WPA, farms, soil conservation.
Check "Use Restriction(s)." Credit: National Archives + the NAID number.
Native American portraits and objects, Americana, industry. Free-to-use (CC0) only.
Make sure "Free to Use (CC0)" shows at the top. Credit: Smithsonian Institution (optional, but nice).
Photos, postcards, maps and prints, including the old West. Public domain only.
If the "public domain only" box isn't ticked, tick it. Credit: From The New York Public Library.
Old photos shared by more than 100 libraries and museums.
Credit: the library or museum that posted it.
Paintings, prints and drawings, all free to reuse. Good for the sermon.
Prints, paintings, early photographs. Open Access images only.
Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Religious art, Western art, posters, prints. Public domain only.
Best matches come first. If the top results don't fit, they don't have it. Credit: Art Institute of Chicago.
Modern photos of almost anything. Read the license line on each picture.
Places, buildings, landscapes, people. Everything here is free to reuse.
Credit: the photographer and license shown under "Use this file."
Clean modern photos and illustrations, including Color Me line art. Premium is filtered out.
Costs money. Don't download; send Chris the link and he'll buy it. Credit: iStock / photographer's name.