Attribution & Licensing

This site relies on a combination of family archives and publicly available historical materials. We are grateful to the archivists, librarians, digitization projects, and family members who preserve and share visual heritage.

All images used on this site fall into three categories: family-owned materials, public domain works, and properly licensed Creative Commons images. Below is comprehensive attribution information organized by category.

These materials are owned by the Van Dyke family and descendant families:

Benjamin Franklin Van Dyke Glass Plate Collection

• Creator: Benjamin Franklin Van Dyke (1862-1940s)
• Date: Circa 1890s-1920s
• Format: Glass plate negatives, digitized
• Count: 93 images
• Digitized by: Bill Arnett (great-grandson)
• Original Owner: Caroline McMichael (via family inheritance)
• Online Repository: arnett.us.com/BFVD/plates/
• Usage: Glass Plates Gallery, Biography pages, Photo Gallery
• Rights: Family ownership, used with permission

Benjamin's Autobiographical Letter

• Creator: Benjamin Franklin Van Dyke
• Date: Circa 1931 (Age 69)
• Format: 10-page handwritten letter
• Content: Personal memoir of Iowa pioneer life and Oklahoma Territory
• Usage: Letter Viewer page (/bfvd-letter)
• Rights: Family ownership

Family Photographs

• Sources: Various family collections
• Dates: 1800s-2000s
• Usage: Portrait frames on biography pages, Photo Gallery
• Rights: Family ownership, used with permission

Historical images and contextual photographs from public domain collections:

Wikimedia Commons

Source: commons.wikimedia.org

• Revolutionary War battle scenes (Battle of Monmouth artwork)
• Period maps of New Jersey, New Netherland
• Historical engravings and paintings
• License: Public Domain (pre-1928 works, government documents)
• Verification: All images checked for "Public Domain" designation

Library of Congress

Source: loc.gov

• Historical photographs (American Memory collections)
• Period maps and atlases
• Prints and Photographs Division
• License: "No known restrictions" or confirmed Public Domain
• Usage: Contextual images for historical sections

National Archives (NARA)

Source: archives.gov

• Revolutionary War records and documents
• Historical photographs
• License: U.S. Government works (Public Domain)

New York Public Library Digital Collections

Source: digitalcollections.nypl.org

• New Netherland historical materials
• 19th-century prints and maps
• License: Public Domain or CC0 designation

Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)

Source: rijksmuseum.nl

• Dutch Golden Age artwork (Origins section context)
• Historical maps of the Netherlands
• Ships and colonial imagery
• License: CC0 (Public Domain dedication)

Oklahoma Historical Society

Source: okhistory.org

• Oklahoma Territory photographs
• Early statehood images
• License: Public Domain (confirmed per image)

Some pages currently use placeholder graphics where primary source images are being sourced or digitized:

• Portrait placeholders - Awaiting high-resolution scans from family archives
• Document images - Some documents are referenced but not yet digitized
• Contextual hero images - In process of selecting appropriate public domain images

Note: Placeholder images are clearly marked and will be replaced with appropriate historical materials as they become available.

When possible, we provide attribution information directly adjacent to images. For space-constrained layouts, attribution appears on hover or in image metadata.

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