File:Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox.jpg

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Summary

Description

English: American poet Walt Whitman. This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox. The image is said to have been Whitman's favorite from the photo-session; Cox published about seven images for Whitman, who so admired this image that he even sent a copy to the poet Tennyson in England. Whitman sold the other copies.^[1]

Date

1887

Source

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID ppmsca.07549.
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



Alternative names	George C. Cox
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	1851 / August 1857	1903 / 1902
Location of birth/death	New Jersey	Trenton
Work period	1885 –1890
Work location	Newark; Newark; New York City; Orange
Authority file	: Q3760455 VIAF: 31451904 ULAN: 500469155 LCCN: n2007065013 RKD: 397094 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

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File:Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox.png - Restoration (PNG)
File:Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox - Original LoC scan.tiff - 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. This is a featured picture on the Persian language Wikipedia (نگاره‌های برگزیده) 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

Adam Cuerden requests attribution for his restoration work.

The author died in 1903, 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	03:18, 12 July 2013	1,983 × 2,456 (3.04 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Rethink after looking at other copy
	02:53, 12 July 2013	1,983 × 2,456 (3.04 MB)	Adam Cuerden	One more try
	02:45, 12 July 2013	1,983 × 2,456 (3.04 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Why's the wrong one keep uploading?
	02:38, 12 July 2013	1,983 × 2,456 (3.04 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Further tweaks
	02:27, 12 July 2013	1,983 × 2,456 (3.04 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Few clean-ups
	01:41, 12 July 2013	1,983 × 2,456 (3.04 MB)	Adam Cuerden	User created page with UploadWizard