File:Jefferson Davis - 1853 daguerreotype - color.png

From Wikiquote
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(1,376 × 1,814 pixels, file size: 1.08 MB, MIME type: image/png)

This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects. The description on its file description page there is shown below.

Description Daguerreotype of Jefferson Davis
Date 1853-1854 (see information on daguerreotype here
Source Encyclopedia Virginia, with permission from The Museum of the Confederacy. (source file here)
Author unattributed.
Color added by Scewing (talk). Blue eyes are assumed by comment from Varina Davis in Davis, Varina (1890) Jefferson Davis, ex-president of the Confederate States of America, a memoir, Vol I, New York : Belford Co. on p.51, where she states: " He said little, but my mother was struck by his beautiful blue eyes".
Other versions
This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: color added. Transparent background, removed some artifacts. See previous versions below for repair history. Scewing (talk).

Public domain

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 70 years or fewer.


You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Honduras has a general copyright term of 75 years, but it does implement the rule of the shorter term. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II (more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions (more information).

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

File history

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

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current20:59, 21 December 2010Thumbnail for version as of 20:59, 21 December 20101,376 × 1,814 (1.08 MB)ScewingReverted to version as of 14:03, 21 December 2010
14:11, 21 December 2010Thumbnail for version as of 14:11, 21 December 20101,376 × 1,814 (1.07 MB)ScewingReverted to version as of 13:56, 21 December 2010
14:03, 21 December 2010Thumbnail for version as of 14:03, 21 December 20101,376 × 1,814 (1.08 MB)Scewingtweak
13:58, 21 December 2010Thumbnail for version as of 13:58, 21 December 20101,376 × 1,814 (1.08 MB)Scewingslightly higher color saturation
13:56, 21 December 2010Thumbnail for version as of 13:56, 21 December 20101,376 × 1,814 (1.07 MB)Scewing{{Information |Description=Daguerreotype of Jefferson Davis |Source=Encyclopedia Virginia |Date=1853 |Author=unattributed. <br> Color added by ~~~~ |Permission= |other_versions= <gallery> File:Jefferson Davis 1853 daguerreotype.png|original File:Jefferso

The following 2 pages use this file:

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file: