File:Mathew Brady - Franklin Pierce - alternate crop.jpg

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Summary

Description

English: Portrait of Franklin Pierce (1804–1869) by Mathew Brady. The LoC describes this as "Copy neg. from original ink by Brady after Daguerreotype".

Date

between 1855 and 1865

Source

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cwpbh.02545.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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Author

Original:



Description	American photographer, war photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death	18 May 1822	15 January 1896
Location of birth/death	New York	Manhattan
Work period	from 1844 until circa 1887 date QS:P,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	New York, Washington, D.C.
Authority file	: Q187850 VIAF: 22965552 ISNI: 0000000122094376 ULAN: 500126201 LCCN: n81140569 NAID: 10570155 WorldCat

Restored by:

Adam Cuerden
Description	British Image restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and Wikipedian As Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Date of birth	8 June 1979
Location of birth	United States of America

Other versions

This file has multiple extracted images:

File:Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce.jpg - Restoration (JPEG)
File:Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce.png - Restoration (PNG)
File:Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce - alternate crop.jpg - Restoration - Alternate crop (JPEG)
File:Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce - alternate crop.png - Restoration - Alternate crop (PNG)
File:Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce - Original scan.tif - Original Library of Congress (TIFF)

Assessment


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Licensing

The author died in 1896, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	12:14, 18 October 2014	4,562 × 5,678 (11.98 MB)	Adam Cuerden
	12:07, 18 October 2014	4,562 × 5,678 (11.98 MB)	Adam Cuerden	More tweaks
	12:03, 18 October 2014	4,562 × 5,678 (11.99 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Tweaks and cleanup
	12:03, 18 October 2014	4,562 × 5,678 (11.99 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Tweaks and cleanup
	10:06, 18 October 2014	4,562 × 5,678 (11.99 MB)	Adam Cuerden	upload