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Description Shirley Graham Du Bois
Date Taken on 18 July 1946
Source University of Massachusetts Library
Author
Carl Van Vechten  (1880–1964)  wikidata:Q312851 s:en:Author:Carl Van Vechten q:it:Carl Van Vechten
 
Carl Van Vechten
Alternative names
Carl Van Vetchen; Carl van Vechten
Description American writer and photographer
Date of birth/death 17 June 1880 Edit this at Wikidata 21 December 1964 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Cedar Rapids Edit this at Wikidata New York City Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q312851
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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
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(Reusing this file)		 The Library of Congress has a copy of this exact image, and per [1] it was released into Public Domain
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Public domain This work is from the Carl Van Vechten Photographs collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
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