Credits & rights
Every image, accounted for
1 portrait records
Portrait categories in this edition
- : 7
- : 1
- : 3
- : 5
- : 8
- : 18
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
Dorothy Vaughan
- Kind
- Portrait
- Credit / creator
- NASA / NASA on The Commons
- Source page
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/34646435630/
- Original file
- https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/dorothyjvaughan.jpg
- Local cache
/media/portraits/dorothy-vaughan.jpg+ responsive WebP copies (resized; original stays at source)- Original date
- Photograph date unspecified
- Quality
- Source original available; web copies resized without upscaling.
- Source size
- 985 × 1255 px
Permission
No known restrictions (institutional statement)
Recorded statement: “No known copyright restrictions, as stated by NASA on The Commons for this exact image. Credit NASA; this is an institutional rights statement, not a claim of proven public-domain status. Use in a factual educational biography without implied NASA endorsement.”
License URL: https://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/
Rights evidence: https://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/
Item evidence (checked 2026-11-08):
- NASA on The Commons item 34646435630 explicitly marks this photograph No known copyright restrictions. The Wikimedia original has SHA-1 a7ff64c362ce9068916da46d39e1999078791e98, matching the NASA download byte-for-byte. The Science Museum family-credited portrait was downloaded and visually compared; it is a different photograph of a younger Vaughan.
- Downloaded NASA original inspected; authentic portrait identified by the NASA page. This is not a film actor or generated portrait.
Complete supplied item evidence
- figure id
- dorothy-vaughan
- credit
- NASA / NASA on The Commons
- rights
- No known copyright restrictions, as stated by NASA on The Commons for this exact image. Credit NASA; this is an institutional rights statement, not a claim of proven public-domain status. Use in a factual educational biography without implied NASA endorsement.
- rights status
- verified
- rights category
- no-known-restrictions
- license url
- https://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/
- dimensions
- [985,1255]
- caption
- Dorothy Vaughan; photograph date unspecified by NASA.
- evidence
- NASA on The Commons item 34646435630 explicitly marks this photograph No known copyright restrictions. The Wikimedia original has SHA-1 a7ff64c362ce9068916da46d39e1999078791e98, matching the NASA download byte-for-byte. The Science Museum family-credited portrait was downloaded and visually compared; it is a different photograph of a younger Vaughan.
- context source
- https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/nasas-overlooked-star/
- visual review
- Downloaded NASA original inspected; authentic portrait identified by the NASA page. This is not a film actor or generated portrait.
- sha256
- e79171da5a49729948ce025b0d038fd12c78bc194d931681a302d87f5700d80b
- reviewed
- 2026-11-08
- evidence urls
- ["https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/34646435630/","https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorothy_Vaughan_2.jpg","https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/langley/dorothy-j-vaughan/"]
- sha1
- a7ff64c362ce9068916da46d39e1999078791e98
- review scope
- Verified the institution’s exact image-level rights statement and file identity; photographer and original photograph date remain unidentified.
- reuse basis
- Institutional no-known-restrictions statement plus NASA informational/educational-use guidelines.
- nasa media terms url
- https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/
- date caveat
- June 1, 2017 is the Flickr upload date, not the date the portrait was taken.
Qualification: June 1, 2017 is the Flickr upload date, not the date the portrait was taken. Verified the institution’s exact image-level rights statement and file identity; photographer and original photograph date remain unidentified.
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
Exact approved files supplied by the partners; displayed unmodified with preserved proportions.
Black Muze Global Network
1024×358 PNG · verified 2026-11-08 · used with partner approval
Gold full horizontal mark; use against black/dark background. Keep clear space at least the GLOBAL NETWORK text height.
Obsidian Solutions
1024×1024 PNG · verified 2026-11-08 · used with partner approval
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
1024×430 PNG · verified 2026-11-08 · used with partner approval
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).