Credits & rights
Every image, accounted for
1 portrait records
Portrait categories in this edition
- : 7
- : 1
- : 3
- : 5
- : 8
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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.
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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
Edmonia Lewis
- Kind
- Portrait
- Title
- Henry Rocher, NPG.94.95
- Credit / creator
- Henry Rocher, Edmonia Lewis, circa 1870. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.94.95. CC0; archival original downloaded via Wikimedia Commons.
- Source page
- https://avpreservation.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.94.95
- Original file
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Edmonia_Lewis_by_Henry_Rocher_-_Original.tif
- Local cache
/media/portraits/edmonia-lewis.jpg+ responsive WebP copies (resized; original stays at source)- Original date
- circa 1870
- Quality
- Highest-resolution authentic archival version retrieved in this bounded review; not a claim about every version available.
- Composition
- Full mounted photograph; the historical mount and photographic imperfections are retained.
- Source size
- 3066 × 4923 px
Permission
CC0
Recorded statement: “CC0. The exact Smithsonian object record identifies the media as public domain; the downloaded archival original is a Commons-hosted copy of that NPG photograph.”
Rights evidence: https://avpreservation.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.94.95
Item evidence (checked 2026-11-08):
- Exact primary object record: Object number NPG.94.95; Restrictions & Rights: CC0; the media explanation expressly permits reuse as public-domain material.
- Original scan mirror and technical metadata: Identifies NPG.94.95 and Henry Rocher; distinguishes this unretouched archival TIFF from the restored versions. Original scan measures 3066 by 4923 pixels.
Qualification: The Smithsonian direct-image endpoint failed during download. The exact original scan was obtained from the documented Commons mirror. Do not credit Adam Cuerden as restorer of this unretouched original; that credit belongs to the separate restored versions.
Reviewed 2026-11-08. Category summarizes the source statement; not a legal determination.
Contextual media register
2 of 13 reuse-supported contextual items for this figure. Local copies are optimized WebP derivatives; the original-quality file stays at its source.
- Educator-context image hidden
Provenance
The Death of Cleopatra
Date: Sculpture carved 1876; photograph 2010 · Creator: Edmonia Lewis, sculptor; Gene Young, photographer; Smithsonian American Art Museum
Figure: Edmonia Lewis
Source size: 2250 × 3000 px
Permission
CC0 1.0
Commons reproduces Smithsonian Open Access file and CC0 license; Smithsonian collection record saam_1994.17 independently lists Restrictions & Rights: CC0.
Editorial: Artwork depicts death and includes partial artistic nudity; suitable for an educator-facing article, with educator preview before use in K–2. No sensational account of suicide in child-facing text.
Educator-context only: This classical sculpture depicts a death scene and partial nudity. Educator preview recommended before use with children.
Provenance
Old Arrow Maker
Date: Modeled 1866, carved 1872; photograph 2004 · Creator: Edmonia Lewis, sculptor; Lea Christiano, photographer; Smithsonian American Art Museum
Figure: Edmonia Lewis
Source size: 2122 × 2829 px
Permission
CC0 1.0
Smithsonian Open Access image linked by Commons with CC0 dedication; no need to rely on a generic museum copyright assumption.
Editorial: Inspired by Longfellow’s poem, not a documentary representation of all Indigenous lives. Discuss Lewis’s artistic choices and distinguish romanticized literature from lived Indigenous cultures.
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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
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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).