Children's book illustration, White Bear King Valemon, by Theodor Kittelsen. Kvitebjørn Kong Valemon (1912). Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Vintage Polar bear. Buffon, Naturgeschichte der vierfusigen. 1785. Scans of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Vintage polar bear engraving, 1825. Polar bear, not the cute kind. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Vintage polar bear. Niko Pirosmani. Mother Bear with Her Cubs. 1917. Oil on oilcloth. State Art Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Brehms Tierleben. Allgemeine kunde des Tierreichs (1911). Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Frank ver Beck. Via Sothebys catalog, believed to be an Illustration from An Animal Calendar for 1900 published by R.H. Russell in 1899. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed be free to use without restriction in the U.S.

Vintage polar bear. Advertisement for SnowKing mitts, color poster of polar bear wearing mittens against orange sky. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Fiore di virtù, ca. 1440, Italian. Via Harvard U., Scriptorium. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Five different specimen of bears shown in their natural habitat. Scan of 2d object in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Russian stamp. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Russian stamp art, polar bear, 1964. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Adam Forepaugh: White Polar Bears And Sea Lions. 1879. Via Ringling.org. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports (1830). Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Brehms Tierleben. Allgemeine kunde des Tierreichs (1911). Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Charitably drawn American black bear. Vintage French Animal Print. Complements de Buffon, 1838. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Brown and black bear, with long tongue.Vintage French Animal Print. Complements de Buffon, 1838. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Depraved looking bear; grizzly? Vintage French Animal Print. Complements de Buffon, 1838. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Koala bear and baby.Vintage French Animal Print. Complements de Buffon, 1838. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Vintage bear print. Brown bear. Buffon, Naturgeschichte der vierfusigen. 1785. Scans of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Fauna Nordisk. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Italian images; early naturalist. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without retstriction in the US.

Bears bears bears, bears hugging, bears kissing, bears eating, bears climbing a tree, bears fooling around. Medieval. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Dancing Bears; medieval illustration. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

William Holbrook Beard; paintings of animals in narrative settings. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Albany, NY : J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers, 1902. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Brown bear. French animal illustrations, color, 18th century. Scans of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Czec image, ca. 1300, Ursa Major (big dipper). Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Vintage advertising art, American. Jello cook book illustrations. Color. Via Duke University. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Vintage French circus poster. Dancing bears, roller skating bears, bike riding bears. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Russian stamp; bear cub climbing tree. 1970. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US. 1970._

Medieval page borders; floral and thematic; agrarian. Top image includes children feeding a bear. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Playing cards with Russian governmental political regions depicting local custom, costume, map and icons; 19th Century. Scans of images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction i the US. Collection

Playing cards with Russian governmental political regions depicting local custom, costume, map and icons; 19th Century. Scans of images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction i the US. Collection

William Holbrook Beard; paintings of animals in narrative settings. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

William Holbrook Beard; paintings of animals in narrative settings. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

William Holbrook Beard; paintings of animals in narrative settings. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

William Holbrook Beard; paintings of animals in narrative settings. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

William Holbrook Beard; paintings of animals in narrative settings. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Satire; painting of monkeys acting like backroom politicians. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

William Holbrook Beard; paintings of animals in narrative settings. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

William Holbrook Beard; paintings of animals in narrative settings. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Leo Tolstoy, M. Glukhov. The Three Bears. Little pre-Goldilocksian girl goes into forest and sees bear shtetl. "The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good." Leo Tolstoy. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US. Illustration of girl in forest.

Leo Tolstoy, M. Glukhov. The Three Bears. Illustration of momma bear, daddy bear, and baby bear going out. "if they hadn't both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just what they were thinking and feeling, then they would just have looked into each other's eyes, and Constantine would only have said: "You're dying, dying, dying!" while Nicholas would simply have replied: "I know I'm dying, but I'm afraid, afraid, afraid!" That's all they would have said if they'd been talking straight from the heart. But it was impossible to live that way, so Levin tried to do what he'd been trying to do all his life without being able to, what a great many people could do so well, as he observed, and without which life was impossible: he tried to say something different from what he thought, and he always felt it came out false, that his brother caught him out and was irritated by it." Leo Tolstoy. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Leo Tolstoy, M. Glukhov. The Three Bears. Pre-Goldilocksian era; little girl trying porridge. "Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know." Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) . Illustration of girl trying porridge. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US .

Leo Tolstoy, M. Glukhov. The Three Bears. Pre-Goldilocksian era. Illustration of girl breaking chair. "It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong." Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace) . Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Leo Tolstoy, M. Glukhov. The Three Bears. Pre-Goldilocksian. Illustration of girl sleeping in bed. "Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up." Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina). Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Leo Tolstoy, M. Glukhov. The Three Bears. Illustration of three bears looking at porridge bowls. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) . Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Leo Tolstoy, M. Glukhov. The Three Bears. Illustration of baby bear looking at broken chair. "He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it." Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace) . Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Leo Tolstoy, M. Glukhov. The Three Bears. Illustration of bears looking talking. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) . Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Leo Tolstoy, M. Glukhov. The Three Bears. Illustration of baby bear finding girl in bed that was just right. "Life is fragile and absurd." Leo Tolstoy . Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Leo Tolstoy, M. Glukhov. The Three Bears. Illustration of girl running from forest. "We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom." Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace). Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Leo Tolstoy, M. Glukhov. The Three Bears. Cover illustration. Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace). Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

ABC und Lesebuch mit 20 illuminierten Bildern. 1832. Via International Youth Library: "Dies ist ein Lese-Lern-Buch mit einer Einführung in das deutsche und lateinische Alphabet, in mögliche Buchstabenkombinationen, Silbentrennung, Interpunktion und deutsche und römische Ziffern. Es folgen bebilderte Beispiele zu den einzelnen Buchstaben und am Schluß als Leseübungen einige Erläuterungen zu Beispielwörtern." Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Harry's Ladder to Learning, 1850. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Uranographia by Johannes Hevelius. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Engraving; advertisement for animal tamers; 18th century. Scan of 2 d image in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

(1781) Illustrations of the discoveries of the flying man, by Nicolas-Edmé Restif de la Bretonn [Illustrations de La Découverte australe par un homme volant, ou Le Dédale français] ; [[]Illustrations de La Découverte australe, ou Les Antipodes] 1781. Scans of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Bear and Viking fighting. Combat vigoureux. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Monstorum Historia, man bear. Scan of 2 d images in public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Bear with boulder aiming for the head of a man who is passed out, presumably after original bear assault. Drawing. L'Ours et l'Amateur des jardins, VIII, 10. France, 19th Century.

Deutsche kunst und dekoration 1903. Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Teatro d'imprese (1623). Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Sheep (1837). Scan of 2 d images in the public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.

Granddville, Metamorphoses du Jour. Scan of 2 d image in public domain believed to be free to use without restriction in the US.