File:Sid Mercer.jpg

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Description	James Sidney Mercer (1880–1945) was an American sports writer who covered mostly boxing and baseball in St. Louis and in New York City.
Author or copyright owner	unknown
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: unknown Immediate source: https://baseballhall.org/discover-more/awards/spink/sid-mercer
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Sid Mercer
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)	searching does not find a free alternative
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	for visual ID of the person in question, on the page about this person
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	lower resolution, non-color image
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1945 a public domain caricature of Mercer is available on Wikimedia Commons, but a cartoon drawing does not serve the same purpose as a real-life photograph
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Sid Mercer//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sid_Mercer.jpgtrue

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to provide visual identification of one or more specific individual(s), or an identifiable gathering of them,
where the individual(s) concerned are deceased, or where access would for practical purposes be impossible,
and for whom there is no known representation under a 'free' license,
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:07, 3 March 2021		306 × 326 (64 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	04:56, 2 March 2021	No thumbnail	540 × 574 (49 KB)	Dmoore5556 (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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Width	1,788 px
Height	2,640 px
Bits per component	8
Compression scheme	Uncompressed
Orientation	Normal
Number of components	1
Horizontal resolution	300 dpi
Vertical resolution	300 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 (Windows)
File change date and time	07:37, 25 September 2014
Color space	Uncalibrated
Unique ID of original document	adobe:docid:photoshop:64002565-3cc0-11d9-9ff2-bd9a33573916
Date and time of digitizing	09:49, 27 September 2010
Date metadata was last modified	03:37, 25 September 2014
Copyright status	Copyright status not set
IIM version	239