Credits & rights
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1 portrait records
Portrait categories in this edition
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- : 1
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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
Robert Smalls
- Kind
- Portrait
- Title
- Photographer not specified in the consulted item record; Brady-Handy photograph collection, LOC 2017893186 / LC-DIG-cwpbh-03683
- Credit / creator
- Robert Smalls, between 1870 and 1880. Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-03683.
- Source page
- https://www.loc.gov/item/2017893186/
- Original file
- https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/pnp/cwpbh/03600/03683u.tif
- Local cache
/media/portraits/robert-smalls.jpg+ responsive WebP copies (resized; original stays at source)- Original date
- between 1870 and 1880
- Quality
- Highest-resolution authentic archival version retrieved in this bounded review; not a claim about every version available.
- Composition
- Original negative scan includes border markings and historical imperfections. JPEG is a format conversion, without cropping or restoration.
- Source size
- 5658 × 7500 px
Permission
No known restrictions (institutional statement)
Recorded statement: “No known restrictions on publication, per the exact LOC item Rights Advisory. The same record also describes the Brady-Handy collection as public domain and available for reuse.”
Rights evidence: https://www.loc.gov/resource/cwpbh.03683/
Item evidence (checked 2026-11-08):
- Exact primary LOC record: Identifies Robert Smalls, date range, control number 2017893186, digital identifier cwpbh.03683, and Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. The collection Rights & Access paragraph states public domain.
- Identity comparison with current canonical image: The NPS biography credits the Library of Congress; visual comparison matches the exact LOC portrait.
Qualification: The LOC advisory is reproduced precisely; it is not converted into a blanket legal guarantee. No individual photographer is inferred from the collection name.
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
Robert Smalls and the gun-boat Planter
Date: 1862-06-14 · Creator: Unidentified wood engraver; Harper’s Weekly; Library of Congress reproduction
Figure: Robert Smalls
Source size: 4096 × 3287 px
Permission
Public domain
Published in 1862; Commons PD-old-100-expired and Library of Congress No known restrictions on publication advisory.
Editorial: Historical wood engraving, not a photograph of the escape. The source file is the higher-resolution Library of Congress scan as supplied by Commons.
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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
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).