File:Orson-Welles-CBS-Radio-Studio-1938.jpg

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Summary

Description

English: Color portrait photograph of Orson Welles on the cover of the New York Sunday News, recreating the CBS Radio studio in the newspaper's photographic studio in 1938

Biographical profile related to the front cover begins as follows:
Orson Welles in Coloroto
You'll find a picture of young Orson Welles, the nation's No. 1 radio bogey man, on page one of today's Coloroto Section.

Date

29 January 1939 — photograph dates to 1938

Source

National Portrait Gallery Source

final version from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

Author



Alternative names	Harry W. Warnecke
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	1900	1984
Work location	New York City
Authority file	: Q52156990

Lee Jennings Elkins (1897–1982)
Alternative names	Lee J. Elkins
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	10 February 1897	27 April 1982
Location of birth/death	Magazine	Hollywood
Authority file	: Q131845126

New York Sunday News, color portrait photograph by [Harry] Warneke and Elkins

Permission
(Reusing this file)

A search for renewals was done in periodicals for the years 1966 and 1967. There were no renewals for New York News, New York Daily News, or New York Sunday News. There's no evidence that copyright continues to be claimed on this material.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	16:59, 18 February 2026	1,200 × 1,546 (568 KB)	Patagonicus	Reverted to version as of 14:16, 20 January 2022 (UTC) - looks like an AI upscale, just outright inventing detail. Shouldn't be replacing the orignal file, make it a separate file if you insit on running it through AI.
	23:43, 21 January 2025	3,804 × 4,871 (11.6 MB)	Yann	HR from TIFF
	14:16, 20 January 2022	1,200 × 1,546 (568 KB)	WFinch	Reverted to version as of 18:56, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
	23:17, 11 December 2020	2,400 × 3,092 (2 MB)	The Image Editor	Took original file and cropped to improve resolution
	18:56, 14 August 2017	1,200 × 1,546 (568 KB)	WFinch	cropped and cleaned version
	18:55, 14 August 2017	1,850 × 2,670 (3.19 MB)	WFinch	version without the squib attached to the image
	18:50, 14 August 2017	2,380 × 3,000 (3.66 MB)	WFinch	{{Information \|Description ={{en\|1=Color portrait photograph of Orson Welles on the cover of the ''New York Sunday News'', recreating the CBS Radio studio in the newspaper's photographic studio}} \|Source =[https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/en...