Strange images in iphone backup

I went into my iphone backup files today looking for something and stumbled upon numerous strange images. These are not in my camera roll, and I have never seen them before today. They look like stock photos, and some have an image credit in the bottom left corner that includes Flickr and Getty images. They're very random, one is a picture of a road leading up to a mountain, one is of a plane's wing in the air, another is almost like a mug shot of an elderly woman, there's an image of a doctor or dentist coming near the camera with a tool? I'm so confused where these came from and how they got backed up.
If anyone can tell me what these are, and if I can delete them from my backup to save some space it would be much appreciated

They may be images that were in web pages you visited, and got cached in the browser's cache. They could have been in areas of the page that you did not pay attention to, or did not scroll down to, so you would not necesarily remember them.
Does anyone else have access to your phone besides yourslef?

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