Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ira Roe Foster - Brigadier General (circa 1850)

Ira Roe Foster - Brigadier General (circa 1850)

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Original – both the subject, and the photograph itself, are historically significant. This image is from the early period of photographic portraits - of an individual who was an active participant in many of the key political events of his day.

Reason

A historically significant image of a Georgia Militia General taken within a few years of the first photographic portrait extant

Articles in which this image appears

Ira Roe Foster

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History

Creator

the creator of this image is Iris Smale, a descendant, who owns the original. The creator of the original image is lost to time.

• Support as nominator – Gulbenk (talk) 04:18, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
• Oppose – The quality of this image is way below acceptable, even considering the EV. --Janke | Talk 07:41, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
• Speedy close - well below the resolution limit. MER-C 08:48, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:38, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

• Speedy close, bellow the site requirements. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:38, 3 August 2019 (UTC)