Most people would go straight to Google image search but not all images online are indexed, and more importantly you are likely to be breaking copyright to use them without permission. The fact you freely found it is NO INDICATION of the legality of your re-using it without permission. You could rely on your documentation never being seen outside of a small circle of players and crew - but a more sensible option is to find copyright free images to use, especially if those documents will be online at any stage. Copyright law is very clear that a lack of knowledge is not a defence and this has been demonstrated in many prosecutions.
Do not be mislead by the concept of "Fair use or fair dealings" this is a mainly US law and related to you only if you are using the images for non-profit or educational purposes. You also have to reference the images appropriately.
The above images, and at the bottom of the post, are part of the British Library flickr page, which are (on the whole) copyright free due to age, this is why there are no required references attached. You have to go to the page and browse though as they are indexed by the books they came out of and no metadata on the image topic is stored. The age of many removes any copyright worries and you may reuse.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary
The National Archives have a flickr page and most of the images are way older than any copyright law - these you can use without accrediting the source. It will say clearly if there is any copyright restriction.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/
The following resources are not all old and out of copyright law, but the authors are allowing your to reproduce them with a suitable credit to them! A credit should include the author/creator and the website or location it was found plus a date it was accessed - obviously this is less useful if you want all of your documentation to be "I.C."
Creative commons search tool is very useful in finding free-to-use images BUT you must still reference the source/owner-
http://search.creativecommons.org/
Europeana is a growing collection of images from galleries around Europe -
http://www.europeana.eu/
National Library of Scotland work on a copyright free basis unless otherwise specified -
http://digital.nls.uk/gallery.cfm
Internet archive of Book images on Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/with/14784850762
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