pingnews.com. Get yours at bighugelabs.com/flickr
Multimedia resources -- photos, video, music samples -- researched or created by PINGNews have been used by a variety of sites, bloggers, and news organizations around the world, including: CBC-TV Factual Entertainment, Radio Nederland, Wired, NPR's On the Media, Schmap Guides, 43 Places, NowPublic, Open Source with Christopher Lydon, afromix, The Atlantic Online, AOL Video, The New jersey Jewish Standard, Mother Jones, The City Paper (Washington, D.C.), Vriginia Foundation for the Humanitiesand The Spoken Word , Glasgow Caledonian University.

An Important Note about Rights for Government/Public Domain Collections : These images come from government agencies and are believed to be available for free public use. Most should be in the public domain. The images posted from the Library of Congress, for instance, should have “No Known Restrictions.” But some agencies do request or require specific attribution. To avoid problems: 1) read the individual image description; 2) consult with the government source; 3) Attribute the image to the agency and the creator of the image; 4) contact pingnews with questions; 5) consult Creative Commons or other organizations in this arena; 5) do NOT attribute these images to pingnews.

Collections: Library of Congress | National Archives | NASA | Defense Department

User Responsibility: PINGNews cannot be held responsible for your use of an image. Titles and descriptions are meant to help expedite your research and help you use the images properly. But your use of this site means that you accept responsibility for using these images properly and absolve pingnews from any potential claims that might arise as a result of your usage. Note: If it is found that the resources are being misused by a specific user, that user may be denied access to the materials.

Should I Attribute to PINGNews? FOR IMAGES FROM PUBLIC DOMAIN/GOVERNMENT COLLECTIONS, PINGNEWS SHOULD NOT BE ATTRIBUTED/CREDITED. You may say that the image was found through pingnews. That is appreciated. But we do not want there to be any doubts about the original source or photographer. The original source is identified in each record. WHEN AN IMAGE IS CREATED FOR/BY PINGNEWS attribution and share-alike licensing rules apply but no other restrictions are placed on your usage.

What's New?

Click here to sign up with myOpenID!



Pingnews Royalty Free Production Music

public domain photos from the U.S. government

public domain -- other photos released



Background:



create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands

Photos of pingnews.com (3)

  • Gurudamba Lake,sikkim INDIA by arpanleo
  • Winter by arpanleo
  • supermoon and the falling stars by arpanleo
  • supermoon by arpanleo
 

pingnews.com's favorite photos from other Flickr members (127)

Following (3,301)

See more...

Groups (5050)

Show more... Show fewer...

Testimonials (5)

  • view profile

    lynnmwillis says:

    "Thank you, pingnews, not only for making these images available, but for including so much information with them. This photostream is an invaluable resource for important images.

    Keep them coming!"

    February 23rd, 2008

  • view profile

    Shu...... says:

    "This is a great place to go to and retrieve not only great and beautiful pictures. But also to learn about what existed before most of us were even born. David has a great collection of historical data that make the internet ponders?! He's a great guy to have as a contact, Pingnews.Com is a great asset to have. If you are looking for something beyond average and are tired of the same old boring pictures on flickr? Check out, Pingnews.com."

    January 16th, 2008

  • view profile

    jimmiehomeschoolmom says:

    "Thanks, Pingnews, for offering fantastic public domain images for my educational projects! I appreciate that each photo has detailed information about the subject and where it was taken."

    January 16th, 2008

  • view profile

    Für Immer Fröhlich says:

    "Definately the place to come, to understand America.....

    Thanks for bringing the historic pictures under one simple window....

    It definately make things easier for students and researchers...."

    November 17th, 2007

  • view profile

    risemeagain© says:

    "Through your photos,I konw history better,:)"

    May 11th, 2007

Joined:
October 2005
Hometown:
New York City
Occupation:
Producer, Journalist, Broadcaster, Webcaster
Website:
pingnews blog
https://www.flickr.com/people/pingnews/
www.flickr.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2015-18
158454
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:5DBKIVWH6IJFXG6V7OHRNZMMAUSM5TDJ
<urn:uuid:793510f3-a209-4b2a-b2f0-b8f613a82efc>
2015-05-03T15:54:03Z
206.190.57.60
sha1:3LYV4RSXAZ3UKJ5N2PJXCR3PIEENXVKD
<urn:uuid:741552f6-87d9-4447-8edf-2ff6175f4184>
https://www.flickr.com/people/pingnews/
length
response
<urn:uuid:55ca7d79-a5c2-4e6b-9fb2-c72f0ffd4327>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-18
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2015
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf