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Description "Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, 1824 - 1907. Scientist, resting on a binnacle and holding a marine azimuth mirror" Carbon print, 19.00 x 14.70 cm
Date circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source National Galleries of Scotland Accession number: PGP 230.1
Author T. & R. Annan & Sons; restored by Adam Cuerden[1]
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Of the people named or implied to be named, the last, the son John Annan, died in 1947:


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Or, if we presume the photographer is anonymous, it's still published before 1929, the year that things automatically go out of copyright in the United States, so that's fine, and it's also still out of copyright in the UK under:

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  1. File:Baron-Kelvin-William-Thomson-compass-1902.jpg identifies the photographer as specifically James Craig Annan, but I can't find any source for that attribution.

Additionally, the National Galleries of Scotland offer a CC-by-NC license, for which they suggest Wikipedia as a suitable use. Nice of them, and I'll take advantage of their offer, but to upload, have to claim {{PD-Art}} or {{PD-scan}}

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