Archive policy
Asset Register
Public source and licence information for non-trivial visual assets used by United History. Assets without clear reuse rights should not be published on the site.
| Asset | Page used | Creator/source | Licence/status | Source URL | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Trafford photograph | Homepage, season pages, utility-page background | Ian Mcallister / Wikimedia Commons user Imcall | Public domain, released by the copyright holder via PD-self | Wikimedia Commons source | Used as an atmospheric archive background and card image. Resized to 1920 × 1440 pixels and recompressed as a quality-78 JPEG on 14 October 2026 to reduce transfer size; no visual content was added or removed. |
| Newton Heath 1892-93 team image | Homepage club-history card | The Graphic newspaper, 1892; author unknown | Public domain in the United Kingdom under unknown-author/publication-age basis; public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1931 | Wikimedia Commons source | Historical image used for early-club context. |
| Alex Ferguson, March 1992 photograph | Homepage manager-timeline card and Sir Alex Ferguson profile imagery | Oeyvind Vik / Wikimedia Commons user Aloba | Public domain, released by the copyright holder via PD-self | Wikimedia Commons source | Historical manager image. No official club badge, crest or kit design is claimed by the archive. |
| Monogram and archive UI graphics | Site-wide header and navigation elements | United History | Original site graphic | Not applicable | Text-based CSS/HTML graphic created specifically for this website; it is not an official club crest or badge. |
| United History favicon | Browser tab icon and site shortcut icon | United History | Original site graphic | Not applicable | Text-based SVG favicon created specifically for this website; it is not an official club crest or badge. |
| Football rivalry illustration | Rivalries page hero illustration and homepage Rivalries card | United History; generated specifically for the site using OpenAI's image-generation tool on 24 June 2026 | Original site asset | Not applicable | Prompt-directed original illustration. Checked to exclude third-party logos, club crests, kit designs, sponsor marks, player likenesses, stadium identifiers and copied source imagery. |
| Ernest Mangnall portrait | Homepage managers card | Unknown historical photographer | Public domain under the author-life-plus-70 basis; published before 1931 for United States public-domain status | Wikimedia Commons source | Historical portrait used to identify the first major trophy-winning manager. |
| Manchester United 1902–03 team photograph | Source image retained for archival reference | Warwick Brookes; published in The Golden Penny Football Album, 1902 | Public domain: creator died in 1929 and the work was published before 1931 | Wikimedia Commons source | The original scan is retained locally as the source for the homepage crop. |
| Manchester United 1902–03 team crop | Homepage players card | United History crop of the Warwick Brookes public-domain photograph | Public-domain source; straightforward crop adds no new protected content | Wikimedia Commons source | Cropped to focus on the squad; no badge or new graphic element added. |
| Charlie Roberts, 1909 | Charlie Roberts player profile | Unknown historical photographer; Wikimedia Commons crop from Manchester United's 1908–09 team photograph | Public domain in the United Kingdom under the documented unknown-author/publication-age basis and in the United States because it was published before 1931 | Wikimedia Commons source | Source crop retained at 201 × 253 pixels. Retrieved 15 October 2026. |
| Billy Meredith, 1909 | Billy Meredith player profile | Unknown historical photographer; Wikimedia Commons crop from Manchester United's 1908–09 team photograph | Public domain in the United Kingdom under the documented unknown-author/publication-age basis and in the United States because it was published before 1931 | Wikimedia Commons source | Source crop retained at 179 × 199 pixels. Retrieved 15 October 2026. |
| Sandy Turnbull, 1909 | Sandy Turnbull player profile | Unknown historical photographer; Wikimedia Commons crop from Manchester United's 1908–09 team photograph | Public domain in the United Kingdom under the documented unknown-author/publication-age basis and in the United States because it was published before 1931 | Wikimedia Commons source | Source crop retained at 195 × 223 pixels. Retrieved 15 October 2026. |
| Jack Rowley, 1963 | Jack Rowley player profile | Joop van Bilsen for Anefo / Nationaal Archief | CC0 1.0 Universal public-domain dedication | Wikimedia Commons source | Resized from 4,138 × 3,304 to 1,200 × 958 pixels and recompressed as a quality-82 JPEG on 15 October 2026. |
| Bobby Charlton, 1962 | Sir Bobby Charlton player profile | Unknown photographer; first published in El Gráfico issue 2229 | Public domain in Argentina after expiry of the photographic term and in the United States under the documented PD-1996 basis | Wikimedia Commons source | Source image retained at 563 × 800 pixels. Retrieved 15 October 2026. |
| Old Wembley Twin Towers photograph | Homepage honours card and honours-page introduction | Wikimedia Commons user Responsible? | Public-domain dedication recorded by Wikimedia Commons | Wikimedia Commons source | Used as historical stadium context rather than official club branding. |
| Munich memorial plaque photograph | Munich air disaster story | United History site owner | Original site-owner photograph, supplied for publication on United History | Not applicable | Shows the permanent Munich memorial plaque on the exterior wall of Old Trafford with wreaths placed on either side. Published as assets/memorial.jpg at the supplied 454 × 344 pixel dimensions. |
| United Trinity statue photograph | Holy Trinity story | United History site owner | Original site-owner photograph, supplied for publication on United History | Not applicable | Shows the permanent United Trinity statue of George Best, Denis Law and Sir Bobby Charlton outside Old Trafford. Published as assets/trinity.jpg at the supplied 444 × 374 pixel dimensions. |
Local asset manifest
The public register corresponds to these repository files: assets/old-trafford-public-domain.jpg, assets/newton-heath-1892-public-domain.jpg, assets/alex-ferguson-1992-public-domain.jpg, assets/ernest-mangnall-public-domain.jpg, assets/man-utd-1902-03-public-domain.jpg, assets/man-utd-1902-03-cropped-public-domain.jpg, assets/charlie-roberts-1909-public-domain.jpg, assets/billy-meredith-1909-public-domain.jpg, assets/sandy-turnbull-1909-public-domain.jpg, assets/jack-rowley-1963-cc0.jpg, assets/bobby-charlton-1962-public-domain.jpg, assets/football-rivalry-original-ai.png, assets/old-wembley-twin-towers-public-domain.jpg, assets/memorial.jpg, assets/trinity.jpg and favicon.svg.
The source, creator, status and use for each file are recorded in the table above and in the repository’s ASSET_LICENSES.md.