{
  "checked": "2026-10-13",
  "method": "License read from each Wikimedia Commons file page via the Commons API (prop=imageinfo, extmetadata LicenseShortName/License/UsageTerms/Artist). Only public domain and CC0 files were accepted. Variant B carries the two images it keeps from variant A over from A's check, and added five newly checked images, all public domain. The road photo and the 1600 px sticker size from A are no longer used and were removed from public/.",
  "images": [
    {
      "file": "public/images/capitol-dome-1200.jpg",
      "use": "Variant B history gallery (1951 chapter, sepia treatment) and the results \"more surveys\" card (navy duotone). Watermark cropped out (crop inherited from variant A).",
      "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_USCapitol_-_The_United_States_Capitol_Dome.jpg",
      "title": "The United States Capitol Dome",
      "creator": "Architect of the Capitol (Flickr: USCapitol)",
      "license": "Public domain (official Architect of the Capitol photograph, US federal government work)",
      "licenseShortName": "Public domain"
    },
    {
      "file": "public/images/i-voted-stickers-800.jpg",
      "use": "Registration side panel (desktop) and the first results \"more surveys\" card, both as red/navy duotone.",
      "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pile_of_%22I_Voted%22_stickers.jpg",
      "title": "Pile of \"I Voted\" stickers (polling station, Saint Paul, Minnesota)",
      "creator": "Funknendai",
      "license": "CC0 1.0 (Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication)",
      "licenseShortName": "CC0"
    },
    {
      "file": "public/images/eagle-1400.jpg, public/images/eagle-800.jpg",
      "use": "Hero and results backdrop as a navy duotone with halftone dots. Cropped to the eagle (the plate margin, title line and colour-calibration bar are removed).",
      "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White_Headed_Eagle._Falco_Leucocephalus,_Linn._Male._Yellow_Cat-fish_-_DPLA_-_b69883868695771ea320a71e04f4f8d3.jpg",
      "title": "White Headed Eagle. Falco Leucocephalus, Linn. Male. Yellow Cat-fish (The Birds of America, plate 31)",
      "creator": "John James Audubon (1785-1851); file contributed by Missouri History Museum via DPLA",
      "license": "Public domain (published 1827-1838)",
      "licenseShortName": "Public domain"
    },
    {
      "file": "public/images/liberty-bell-684.jpg",
      "use": "History gallery (2026 chapter) and the closing portrait of the 'We the people' section. Bottom 60 px caption strip cropped off. Rendered no wider than ~330 px.",
      "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Independence_National_Historical_Park_Liberty_Bell_in_LBC_closeup_1.jpg",
      "title": "Independence National Historical Park Liberty Bell in LBC closeup 1",
      "creator": "Robin Miller, National Park Service Digital Image Archives",
      "license": "Public domain (US National Park Service work)",
      "licenseShortName": "Public domain"
    },
    {
      "file": "public/images/statue-liberty-1000.jpg",
      "use": "Lead portrait of the 'We the people' section and the results 'more surveys' card (red duotone). Resized only.",
      "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_Liberty_National_Monument_STLI2261.jpg",
      "title": "Statue of Liberty National Monument STLI2261",
      "creator": "National Park Service Digital Image Archives",
      "license": "Public domain (US National Park Service work)",
      "licenseShortName": "Public domain"
    },
    {
      "file": "public/images/we-the-people-1600.jpg",
      "use": "History gallery 1787 chapter: the top of page 1 ('We the People'), cropped from the full page.",
      "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Constitution_of_the_United_States,_page_1.jpg",
      "title": "Constitution of the United States, page 1",
      "creator": "Constitutional Convention (1787); National Archives and Records Administration scan via DPLA",
      "license": "Public domain",
      "licenseShortName": "Public domain"
    },
    {
      "file": "public/images/supreme-court-view-1400.jpg",
      "use": "History gallery 1995 chapter (sepia). The film border and handwritten HABS label on the right edge are cropped out.",
      "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_from_U.S._Capitol_showing_Jefferson_Building_of_Library_of_Congress_and_U.S._Supreme_Court_-_L%27Enfant-McMillan_Plan_of_Washington,_DC,_Washington,_District_of_Columbia,_DC_HABS_DC,WASH,612-48.tif",
      "title": "View from U.S. Capitol showing Jefferson Building of Library of Congress and U.S. Supreme Court (HABS DC,WASH,612-48)",
      "creator": "Jack E. Boucher, Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc0776.photos.361194p)",
      "license": "Public domain (HABS/HAER documentation is a US government work; the Library of Congress lists no known restrictions)",
      "licenseShortName": "Public domain"
    }
  ],
  "rejected": [
    "Supreme Court building photos on Commons that are CC BY-SA (the brief allows PD/CC0 only)",
    "A 1937 Supreme Court interior photo (shows real officials)",
    "The Great Seal of the United States or any agency seal (legally restricted and reads as impersonation); variant B draws its own seal"
  ]
}