Unknown date, but this is the official W&J College portrait from Patterson's term as college president, and he quit the presidency in 1970. Therefore, the photo must have been taken prior to 1970.
This image is a cropped version of a faithful photograph of a pre-1978 image published without copyright notice. Any possibly copyrightable material has been removed, leaving only public domain material. It is of further note that the library archives do not claim copyright on this image.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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