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Summary

Description Althea Gibson, half-length portrait, holding tennis racquet / New York World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo. It's been modified fro the original to cropp out a pillar in the left and clean up the remainder, which seems in line with this being a newspaper photo.
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3c14745.
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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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.
Author
  • Fred Palumbo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer)

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
See file page for creator info.
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 PD [1]
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Licensing

Public domain This work is from the New York World-Telegram and Sun collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
This photograph is a work for hire created prior to 1968 by a staff photographer at New York World-Telegram & Sun. It is part of a collection donated to the Library of Congress and per the instrument of gift it is in the public domain.

Photographs in this collection other than those identified by such stamps as "World-Telegram photo" or "World-Telegram photo by Ed Palumbo" might not be in the public domain. Works within the collection may be attributed to other news services that retain copyright, works of the U.S. government that are in the public domain in the US, or works with no attribution for which copyright cannot be determined.

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Althea Gibson

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current00:27, 29 April 2023Thumbnail for version as of 00:27, 29 April 20232,722 × 3,749 (3.98 MB)Adam Cuerdenc:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js: Minor border fix in upper left
09:03, 26 April 2023Thumbnail for version as of 09:03, 26 April 20232,722 × 3,749 (3.98 MB)Adam Cuerdenc:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
08:47, 26 April 2023Thumbnail for version as of 08:47, 26 April 20232,722 × 3,749 (3.78 MB)Adam Cuerdenc:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
08:58, 10 June 2011Thumbnail for version as of 08:58, 10 June 20112,200 × 2,800 (685 KB)Jbartacrop
03:08, 24 October 2006Thumbnail for version as of 03:08, 24 October 20062,419 × 3,000 (762 KB)Davepape{{Information |Source=Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c14745 |Description= Althea Gibson, half-length portrait, holding tennis rac

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