Credits & rights
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1 portrait records
Portrait categories in this edition
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11 portraits have been upgraded with verified source originals and item-level evidence. No category implies another: “no known restrictions” is an institutional statement, not a public-domain finding.
Agency and institutional images
Maintain accurate historical context, credit the creator/agency, preserve source records and avoid implying subject or agency endorsement.
NASA, National Park Service, U.S. Air Force and Library of Congress images are used for factual educational biography profiles. Their use does not imply endorsement by any agency or by the people shown. No promotional, merchandise or separate personality-rights clearance is asserted. These limits do not prevent the identified factual educational profile use.
Evidence reviewed 2026-11-08.
Provenance
Augusta Savage
- Kind
- Portrait
- Title
- Andrew Herman, AAA 2371 / AAADCD_item_2371
- Credit / creator
- Andrew Herman, Augusta Savage with her sculpture Realization, circa 1938. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, item 2371. U.S. public domain.
- Source page
- https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/items/detail/augusta-savage-her-sculpture-realization-2371
- Original file
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Archives_of_American_Art_-_Augusta_Savage_-_2371.jpg
- Local cache
/media/portraits/augusta-savage.jpg+ responsive WebP copies (resized; original stays at source)- Original date
- circa 1938
- Quality
- Highest-resolution authentic archival version retrieved in this bounded review; not a claim about every version available.
- Composition
- Artist on the right with Realization; the full photograph includes nonsexual artistic nudity in the sculpture. Preserve the artist-and-work context, or document any portrait crop.
- Display
- Full photograph shown: the artist (right) with her sculpture Realization.
- Source size
- 3275 × 4152 px
Permission
Source-declared public domain
Recorded statement: “U.S. public domain, according to the exact Archives of American Art item Use Note. The Commons copy identifies the Federal Art Project photograph and its WPA public-domain basis.”
Rights evidence: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/items/detail/augusta-savage-her-sculpture-realization-2371
Item evidence (checked 2026-11-08):
- Exact primary collection item: The record identifies Andrew Herman, circa 1938, item 2371, and U.S. public domain.
- Smithsonian primary metadata mirror: Use Note: U.S. public domain; citation names Andrew Herman and the Federal Art Project collection. Verso description and the image match the download.
- Full-resolution scan mirror: Exact AAA item 2371; 3275 by 4152 pixels; identifies WPA provenance.
Qualification: The Smithsonian mirror also displays generic Usage Conditions Apply boilerplate; the item-specific Use Note expressly says U.S. public domain. This finding concerns this photograph and does not establish rights for all photographs or sculptures by Savage.
Reviewed 2026-11-08. Category summarizes the source statement; not a legal determination.
Contextual media register
0 of 13 reuse-supported contextual items for this figure. Local copies are optimized WebP derivatives; the original-quality file stays at its source.
Partner logos
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Black Muze Global Network
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Gold full horizontal mark; use against black/dark background. Keep clear space at least the GLOBAL NETWORK text height.
Obsidian Solutions
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Full stacked mark including SOLUTIONS; use on dark quiet background, with clear space at least 15% of logo width. Preserve all elements and purple glow.
Pedagogy Muse
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Character and open book with green PEDAGOGY/red MUSE text. Prefer white or very light background for readable brand name. Keep character and book together, preserve colors and aspect ratio.
Data sources
- U.S. Census Bureau — 2026 National Places Gazetteer
Representative point of a modern Census place; not historical address or necessarily geometric centroid. Documentation - U.S. Census Bureau — 2026 National Counties Gazetteer
Representative point of a county; coarser accuracy than city-level data. Documentation - GeoNames — United States and Puerto Rico postal-code data · CC BY 4.0
Estimated WGS84 postal locality coordinates; GeoNames accuracy flags retained; not USPS-certified ZIP boundaries. Postal-code coordinates: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Modified into a ZIP lookup table. Documentation - U.S. Census Bureau — 2026 National County Subdivisions Gazetteer
Representative point of a modern township; used for Montclair, New Jersey. Documentation - GeoNames — San Francisco populated-city point (5391959) · CC BY 4.0
Populated-city point, replacing the Census representative point for San Francisco municipal territory including offshore islands. San Francisco city coordinate: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Documentation - OpenStreetMap map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).