March 9, 2014
Here is anther great resource for high resolution images that you can use with your students in class. The Wellcome Library has announced that over 100,000 images are now available for free through the Wellcome Images. These images include a wide variety of materials such a manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and even advertisements.
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Licensing these images under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence means that you can use them for your personal purposes with an acknowledgement of the original source ( Wellcome Library, London). You can either browse through the galleries of Wellcome Images or use the site search functionality to look for specific images. Once you find the image you want , you can either download it ( in both low or high resolution), email it to a friend, or print it and use in your classroom.