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Image credits

The photographs in our timeline and opening sequence come from the collections and photographers credited below. They are displayed in black and white and cropped for the page. Photograph dates may differ from the historical moments they illustrate. The opening montage follows dentsu’s people, company buildings and events documented in its history archive.

Photography credited under CC BY-SA, including its monochrome presentation and crop, remains available under the specific licence linked with each photograph. The presence of a person or an institution does not imply their endorsement.

  1. Hoshio Mitsunaga · dentsu founder

    Hoshio Mitsunaga — National Diet Library portrait 4379, image 1

    National Diet Library, Japan — Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures; photographer not identified

    Source photographPublic domain — NDL historical portraitView image

    Displayed in black and white using CSS. Source pixels retained; responsive delivery may resize/re-encode. Timeline portrait cropped with CSS.

  2. Wilbur & Orville Wright

    Wilbur Wright-crop.jpg

    Orville and Wilbur Wright / Library of Congress; crop and restoration by Scewing

    Source photographPublic domain — US expiredView image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode. Source already cropped and restored by Scewing.

  3. Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein 1921 (cropped).jpg

    Harris & Ewing Studio / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Aileen Conkey

    Source photographCC0 1.0View image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode. Source already cropped.

  4. Marie Curie

    Mme. Marie Curie LCCN2014687674.jpg

    Bain News Service / Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection

    Source photographPublic domain / Bain collectionView image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode.

  5. Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming. Wellcome L0000655.jpg

    Wellcome Collection

    Source photographCC BY 4.0View image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode.

  6. Mahatma Gandhi

    Gandhi.jpg

    Unknown photographer; via Wikimedia Commons

    Source photographPublic domain — India / USView image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode.

  7. Amelia Earhart

    NPG 75 82 Earhart.jpg

    Peter A. Juley / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Edith A. Scott

    Source photographCC0 1.0View image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode.

  8. Alan Turing

    Alan Turing Aged 16.jpg

    Possibly Arthur Reginald Chaffin / Turing Digital Archive

    Source photographPublic domain — expiredView image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode.

  9. Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks at her Congressional Gold Medal ceremony with (left to right) Representative Dick Gephardt, assistant Elaine Steele, Representative Dennis Hastert, and President Bill Clinton.jpg

    Rebecca Roth / CQ Roll Call Photograph Collection, Library of Congress

    Source photographLOC — no known restrictionsView image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode.

  10. Jane Goodall

    Jane Goodall and Allyson Reed.jpg

    Sklmsta / Wikimedia Commons

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    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode.

  11. John F. Kennedy

    John F Kennedy.jpg

    U.S. Navy / Library of Congress

    Source photographPublic domain — US governmentView image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode. Source already retouched around the right eye.

  12. Katherine Johnson

    Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966 - Original.jpg

    NASA

    Source photographPublic domain — US governmentView image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode.

  13. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. (3x4 close cropped).jpg

    Yoichi Okamoto / Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum

    Source photographPublic domain — US governmentView image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode. Source already cropped from the full White House photograph.

  14. Neil Armstrong

    Neil A. Armstrong.jpg

    NASA / NASA on The Commons

    Source photographNASA — no known restrictionsView image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode.

  15. Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs and Macintosh computer, January 1984, by Bernard Gotfryd - edited.jpg

    Bernard Gotfryd / Library of Congress; JPEG conversion, retouching and editing by Cart (W.carter)

    Source photographLOC — no known restrictionsView image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode. Source already converted from TIFF, retouched and edited by Cart.

  16. Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee 2016.jpg

    Internet Archive

    Source photographPublic Domain Mark — owner sourceView image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode.

  17. Nelson Mandela

    Nelson Mandela and the Congressional Black Caucus (cropped).jpg

    Maureen Keating / CQ Roll Call Photograph Collection, Library of Congress

    Source photographLOC — no known restrictionsView image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode. Source already cropped.

  18. Yutaka Narita · dentsu president

    Dentsu Headquarters Building.jpg

    Kakidai

    Source photographCC BY-SA 4.0View image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode. Existing local asset was previously resized/converted.

  19. Jennifer Doudna

    Jennifer Doudna in 2021 by Christopher Michel.jpg

    Christopher Michel

    Source photographCC BY-SA 4.0View image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode.

  20. Malala Yousafzai

    Malala Yousafzai at Oval Office 2013 cropped.jpg

    Pete Souza / The White House; crop by Keφr

    Source photographPublic domain — US governmentView image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode. Source already cropped by Keφr.

  21. Greta Thunberg

    Greta Thunberg at the front banner of the FridaysForFuture demonstration Berlin 29-03-2019 04.jpg

    Leonhard Lenz

    Source photographCC0 1.0View image

    Displayed in black and white and cropped to a circle using CSS; original source pixels retained. Image delivery may resize/re-encode.

  22. Hoshio Mitsunaga, founder of dentsu

    Hoshio Mitsunaga — National Diet Library portrait 4379, image 1

    National Diet Library, Japan — Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures; photographer not identified

    Source photographPublic domain — NDL historical portraitView image

    Displayed in black and white using CSS. Source pixels retained; responsive delivery may resize/re-encode. Identifies a dentsu person or company building.

  23. Dentsu’s first office

    Dentsu Group — Dentsu’s first office

    Dentsu Group history archive; photographer / underlying rights holder not identified

    Source photographNo public commercial grant foundView image

    Original archive WebP restored from the project history; existing resize/crop retained. Website applies CSS grayscale. No open licence asserted.

  24. Hideo Yoshida, dentsu’s fourth president

    Dentsu Group — Hideo Yoshida, dentsu’s fourth president

    Dentsu Group history archive; photographer / underlying rights holder not identified

    Source photographNo public commercial grant foundView image

    Original archive WebP restored from the project history; existing resize/crop retained. Website applies CSS grayscale. No open licence asserted.

  25. Hideo Yoshida chairs dentsu’s Senior Executive Committee, 4 February 1955

    Dentsu Group — Hideo Yoshida chairs dentsu’s Senior Executive Committee, 4 February 1955

    Dentsu Group history archive; photographer / underlying rights holder not identified

    Source photographNo public commercial grant foundView image

    Original archive WebP restored from the project history; existing resize/crop retained. Website applies CSS grayscale. No open licence asserted.

  26. Dentsu’s Senior Executive Committee, 4 February 1955 — second crop

    Dentsu Group — Dentsu’s Senior Executive Committee, 4 February 1955 — second crop

    Dentsu Group history archive; photographer / underlying rights holder not identified

    Source photographNo public commercial grant foundView image

    Original archive WebP restored from the project history; existing resize/crop retained. Website applies CSS grayscale. No open licence asserted.

  27. Early NTV television audience — dentsu’s commercial broadcasting history

    Dentsu Group — Early NTV television audience — dentsu’s commercial broadcasting history

    Dentsu Group history archive; photographer / underlying rights holder not identified

    Source photographNo public commercial grant foundView image

    Original archive WebP restored from the project history; existing resize/crop retained. Website applies CSS grayscale. No open licence asserted.

  28. Hideo Yoshida receives the IAA Man of the Year award

    Dentsu Group — Hideo Yoshida receives the IAA Man of the Year award

    Dentsu Group history archive; photographer / underlying rights holder not identified

    Source photographNo public commercial grant foundView image

    Original archive WebP restored from the project history; existing resize/crop retained. Website applies CSS grayscale. No open licence asserted.

  29. Tokyo 1964 opening ceremony — from dentsu’s archive of its work supporting the Games

    Dentsu Group — Tokyo 1964 opening ceremony — from dentsu’s archive of its work supporting the Games

    Dentsu Group history archive; photographer / underlying rights holder not identified

    Source photographNo public commercial grant foundView image

    Original archive WebP restored from the project history; existing resize/crop retained. Website applies CSS grayscale. No open licence asserted.

  30. Dentsu’s stock market listing at TSE Arrows, 30 November 2001

    Dentsu Group — Dentsu’s stock market listing at TSE Arrows, 30 November 2001

    Dentsu Group history archive; photographer / underlying rights holder not identified

    Source photographNo public commercial grant foundView image

    Original archive WebP restored from the project history; existing resize/crop retained. Website applies CSS grayscale. No open licence asserted.

  31. Hideo Yoshida in New York — dentsu’s international expansion

    Dentsu Group — Hideo Yoshida in New York — dentsu’s international expansion

    Dentsu Group history archive; photographer / underlying rights holder not identified

    Source photographNo public commercial grant foundView image

    Original archive WebP restored from the project history; existing resize/crop retained. Website applies CSS grayscale. No open licence asserted.

  32. Former dentsu headquarters in Tsukiji, photographed in 2006

    Old dentsu building.JPG

    Archs / Wikimedia Commons

    Source photographCC BY-SA 3.0View image

    Displayed in black and white using CSS. Source pixels retained; responsive delivery may resize/re-encode. Identifies a dentsu person or company building.

  33. Dentsu and Publicis Groupe management meeting

    Dentsu Group — Dentsu and Publicis Groupe management meeting

    Dentsu Group history archive; photographer / underlying rights holder not identified

    Source photographNo public commercial grant foundView image

    Original archive WebP restored from the project history; existing resize/crop retained. Website applies CSS grayscale. No open licence asserted.

  34. Yutaka Narita presents dentsu’s strategy at the 1999 company planning gathering

    Dentsu Group — Yutaka Narita presents dentsu’s strategy at the 1999 company planning gathering

    Dentsu Group history archive; photographer / underlying rights holder not identified

    Source photographNo public commercial grant foundView image

    Original archive WebP restored from the project history; existing resize/crop retained. Website applies CSS grayscale. No open licence asserted.

  35. Dentsu headquarters in Shiodome

    Dentsu Headquarters Building.jpg

    Kakidai

    Source photographCC BY-SA 4.0View image

    Displayed in black and white using CSS. Source pixels retained; responsive delivery may resize/re-encode. Identifies a dentsu person or company building.

Archive and brand imagery

The dentsu archive photographs, other leadership photographs and the “125 Questions” campaign artwork remain subject to their respective owners’ rights. They are not offered here under an open licence. The standard dentsu wordmark is sourced from Dentsu.svg, identified as a public-domain text logo; dentsu’s trademark rights remain.

Interface icons

Globe icon: Vercel, Inc., from create-next-app, under the MIT licence. Forward arrow: Google Material Icons, scaled from 24 to 16 units, under the Apache 2.0 licence.

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