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Image credits

A public index of plates this wiki may use. Creator, year, license, source. Earth history — not depictions of Concordia.

Credits

FACT Hosted public-domain plates · local copies · caption with creator, year, license, source

Every FACT image caption ends with Earth history — not a depiction of Concordia. Retrieved 16 September 2026. Do not hotlink Commons forever; these files live on the project CDN.

Do not use

Do not embed Getty, MPI, Tony Korody, South China Morning Post, or DEA Picture Library images from research decks. Do not crop watermarks. Do not regenerate a living artist’s plate with a machine and call it Ferriss or Sant’Elia. Do not scrape Soleri drawings from Cosanti. Do not treat concept art as recovered Concordia evidence.

Safe catalog (hosted)

  • Crystal Palace interior, 1851 — J. McNeven. Public domain. Local: /img/wiki/arcology-history/crystal-palace-interior-1851.jpg. Source: Commons file. Used on Arcology history.
  • Hugh Ferriss, crowding towers, 1929 — The Metropolis of Tomorrow. Public domain (US). Local: /img/wiki/arcology-history/ferriss-crowding-towers-1929.jpg. Prefer published 1929 plates, not later Columbia collection sheets. Wikisource.
  • Edgar Chambless, Roadtown cover, 1910 — Public domain. Local: /img/wiki/arcology-history/chambless-roadtown-cover-1910.jpg. Source: Internet Archive.
  • Antonio Sant’Elia, Città Nuova, 1914 — Public domain (PD-Art). Local: /img/wiki/arcology-history/santelia-citta-nuova-1914.jpg. Commons category.
  • Carol M. Highsmith, Arcosanti exterior — LoC, no known restrictions. Local: /img/wiki/arcology-history/highsmith-arcosanti-49768.jpg. LC-DIG-highsm-49768.
  • Carol M. Highsmith, Arcosanti apse — LoC, no known restrictions. Local: /img/wiki/arcology-history/highsmith-arcosanti-49769.jpg. LC-DIG-highsm-49769. Used on Prototypes.
  • NASA Ames O’Neill art, 1970s — U.S. government work, public domain. Local: /img/wiki/arcology-history/nasa-oneill-spacecolony1.jpg. Caption must say off-world cousin, not a landable city. Spacecolony1.jpg.
  • Elisha Otis, 1854 — Public domain. Local: /img/wiki/arcology-history/otis-safety-brake-1854.jpg. Elisha_OTIS_1854.jpg. Used on Machines.
  • King Camp Gillette, 1894 — The Human Drift. Public domain. Link-out until a plate is hosted: Internet Archive.
  • Phalanstère — Public domain. Link-out until hosted: Phalanstère.jpg.
  • Bessemer converter — Public domain. Link-out until hosted: Bessemer_converter.jpg.
  • Montreal Biosphere — prefer PD-self / named CC-BY, e.g. Biosphere_in_Montreal.jpg. Never Getty.

Hablik: verify the exact Commons file page before use. If the license is ambiguous, skip it.

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