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Description Portrait by Walter Bird of Si Edmund Langley Hirst, FRS, taken for the National Portrait Gallery in 1958, for use in Edmund Hirst.

Author or
copyright owner Walter Bird (photographer)

Source (WP:NFCC#4)

Original publication: National Portrait Gallery

Immediate source: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw226064/Sir-Edmund-Langley-Hirst?

Date of publication 1958

Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Edmund Hirst

Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article

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Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) It will only be used to illustrate the Wikipedia article about Hirst

Respect for
commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) The image belongs to the National Portrait Gallery, who have no plans to commercialise it.

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The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1975

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Fair use for Edmund Hirst

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because:

It is one of two historically significant photos of Sir Edmund Langley Hirst.
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Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because the photo is o the object of discussion in the article.

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	03:14, 25 September 2020		269 × 371 (26 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	07:36, 16 July 2020	No thumbnail	724 × 1,000 (58 KB)	Jgdc47B (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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