Credits & rights

Every image, accounted for

Each record keeps where an image comes from (provenance) separate from what the source says about reuse (permission). Categories summarize the source's own statement and supporting evidence; they are not legal determinations. Rights review is ongoing, and records are updated as new evidence arrives.

FigureRights status

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
Lewis Latimer
Kind
Historical photograph
Credit / creator
National Inventors Hall of Fame portrait; original photographer not identified on the inspected page
Source page
https://www.invent.org/inductees/lewis-latimer
Original file
https://www.invent.org/sites/default/files/styles/inductee_media/public/inductees/286-master_0.jpg?h=754009f3
Local cache
/media/portraits/lewis-latimer.jpg + responsive WebP copies (resized; original stays at source)
Original date
Not recorded in this edition
Permission
Rights unverified
Recorded statement: “Classroom review: rights not verified.”
Reviewed 2026-11-08. Category summarizes the source statement; not a legal determination.

Contextual media register

1 of 13 reuse-supported contextual items for this figure. Local copies are optimized WebP derivatives; the original-quality file stays at its source.

Provenance
Latimer’s carbon-manufacturing patent drawing
Date: 1882-01-17 · Creator: Lewis H. Latimer; United States Patent Office publication
Credit: Lewis H. Latimer, U.S. Patent 252,386 (1882); scan via Google Patents.
Figure: Lewis Latimer
Source size: 1090 × 1600 px
Source record · Original file
Permission
Public domain in the United States: published in 1882.
Original 1882 patent publication. USPTO states patent text and drawings are typically unrestricted, subject to exceptions. No copyright notice found in inspected drawing or extracted text.
License evidence
Editorial: Shows a manufacturing process, not the invention of the light bulb. PNG is a faithful render of PDF page 1; no historical content changed.

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