A couple kisses during a riot in Vancouver, British Columbia, after the hometown NHL hockey team lost the Stanley Cup Final in June 2011. Getty Images, an online photo archive with more than 35 million images, is now allowing "noncommercial" users to use this and other photos for free on their websites or social media. Click through to see some of the other iconic images now available.
10 iconic, free images from Getty —
A couple kisses during a riot in Vancouver, British Columbia, after the hometown NHL hockey team lost the Stanley Cup Final in June 2011. Getty Images, an online photo archive with more than 35 million images, is now allowing "noncommercial" users to use this and other photos for free on their websites or social media. Click through to see some of the other iconic images now available.
Rich Lam/Getty Images
U.S. President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Daily Tribune, which mistakenly declared Truman's defeat to Thomas Dewey in the 1948 presidential election.
10 iconic, free images from Getty —
U.S. President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Daily Tribune, which mistakenly declared Truman's defeat to Thomas Dewey in the 1948 presidential election.
Underwood Archives/Getty Images
John Lennon and Yoko Ono pose for the press at their hotel in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in March 1969. The couple stayed in bed for seven days "as a protest against war and violence in the world."
10 iconic, free images from Getty —
John Lennon and Yoko Ono pose for the press at their hotel in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in March 1969. The couple stayed in bed for seven days "as a protest against war and violence in the world."
Central Press/Getty Images
During a raid at a Miami home in 2000, armed federal agents confront Elian Gonzalez, 6, and one of the men who helped rescue the boy. Gonzalez watched his mother drown when the boat smuggling them from Cuba capsized. Under international law, U.S. authorities were required to return the boy to his father in Cuba.
10 iconic, free images from Getty —
During a raid at a Miami home in 2000, armed federal agents confront Elian Gonzalez, 6, and one of the men who helped rescue the boy. Gonzalez watched his mother drown when the boat smuggling them from Cuba capsized. Under international law, U.S. authorities were required to return the boy to his father in Cuba.
AL DIAZ/AFP/Getty Images
Albert Einstein sticks out his tongue on his 72nd birthday in 1951.
10 iconic, free images from Getty —
Albert Einstein sticks out his tongue on his 72nd birthday in 1951.
ARTHUR SASSE/AFP/Getty Images
The annual "Tribute in Light" memorial echoes the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2011.
10 iconic, free images from Getty —
The annual "Tribute in Light" memorial echoes the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2011.
STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images
Debris and smoke fills the sky after the space shuttle Challenger explodes above Florida's Kennedy Space Center in January 1986.
10 iconic, free images from Getty —
Debris and smoke fills the sky after the space shuttle Challenger explodes above Florida's Kennedy Space Center in January 1986.
Dave Welcher/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The Hindenburg zeppelin bursts into flames in Lakehurst, New Jersey, in May 1937.
10 iconic, free images from Getty —
The Hindenburg zeppelin bursts into flames in Lakehurst, New Jersey, in May 1937.
Sam Shere/Getty Images
A man fans flames on a fire in Leyte, Philippines, after Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the country in November.
10 iconic, free images from Getty —
A man fans flames on a fire in Leyte, Philippines, after Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the country in November.
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
A mushroom cloud rises above Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945 after an atomic bomb was dropped on the city.
10 iconic, free images from Getty —
A mushroom cloud rises above Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945 after an atomic bomb was dropped on the city.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images