File:William H. Crook photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston.jpg

Original file (2,915 × 3,732 pixels, file size: 5.08 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

This is a featured picture, which means that members of the community have identified it as one of the finest images on the English Wikipedia, adding significantly to its accompanying article. If you have a different image of similar quality, be sure to upload it using the proper free license tag, add it to a relevant article, and nominate it.

This image was selected as picture of the day on the English Wikipedia for October 15, 2019.

Summary

Description

William H. Crook, bodyguard to Abraham Lincoln, and subsequently in the service of eleven other American Presidents.

Date

between 1890 and 1910

Source

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3c04728.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ বাংলা ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ lietuvių ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 中文 ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

Author



Alternative names	Frances "Fannie" Benjamin Johnston
Description	American journalist, photographer, photojournalist, architectural photographer and artist
Date of birth/death	15 January 1864	16 May 1952
Location of birth/death	West Virginia	New Orleans
Work period	1883 –1950
Work location	United States of America (1884–1952)
Authority file	: Q462707 VIAF: 27219666 ISNI: 0000000081061649 ULAN: 500009325 LCCN: n85307501 NLA: 35250240 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

File:William H. Crook photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston.jpg - Restoration (JPEG)
File:William H. Crook photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston.png - Restoration (PNG)
File:William H. Crook photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston - Original.tif - Original Library of Congress scan (TIFF)

Assessment


	This is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here. This is a featured picture on the English language Wikipedia (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here. If you have an image of similar quality that can be published under a suitable copyright license, be sure to upload it, tag it, and nominate it.

Licensing

This work is from the Johnston (Frances Benjamin) collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	04:47, 26 March 2016	2,915 × 3,732 (5.08 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js: Levels tweak
	04:35, 26 March 2016	2,915 × 3,732 (4.99 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	04:27, 26 March 2016	2,915 × 3,732 (4.99 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	04:17, 26 March 2016	2,915 × 3,732 (4.99 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Fix some vertical artefacts on face.
	03:49, 26 March 2016	2,915 × 3,732 (4.99 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	03:39, 26 March 2016	2,915 × 3,732 (4.99 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	03:32, 26 March 2016	2,915 × 3,732 (4.99 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	03:23, 26 March 2016	2,915 × 3,732 (4.99 MB)	Adam Cuerden	{{Information \|Description=en:William H. Crook, bodyguard to w:Abraham Lincoln, and subsequently in the service of eleven other American Presidents. \|Source={{loc\|cph.3c04728}} \|Date=between 1890 and 1910 \|Author={{Creator:Frances Benjamin...