File:Erwin Kreuz (c 1979).jpg

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Description	Head-and-shoulders portrait of Erwin Kreuz, a German brewery worker who gained fame in the late 1970s for accidentally disembarking in Bangor, Maine and mistaking it for San Francisco.
Author or copyright owner	Unknown / uncredited photographer(s)
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: Unknown, probable press photograph Immediate source: https://bangordailynews.com/2020/10/17/news/bangor/the-story-of-how-a-german-tourist-ended-up-mistaking-bangor-for-san-francisco/
Date of publication	1979
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Erwin Kreuz
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of their biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Herr Kreuz proved to be reclusive after his fame in the 1970s and lived quietly until his death in 2010. He did not have children and no known digital photographs exist.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	Single-use, minimal resolution
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	This image has been resized to a minimal resolution and the original from which it was resized was a scan of a halftone, so the original quality was low to start.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 2010
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Erwin Kreuz//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Erwin_Kreuz_(c_1979).jpgtrue

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	19:16, 8 April 2022		250 × 338 (38 KB)	Mliu92 (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
Software used	GIMP 2.10.14
File change date and time	12:07, 12 March 2021
Color space	sRGB