An albumen print photograph of Brigham Young, second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, taken circa 1865 by the Utah photographer Charles William Carter, showing Young's head and shoulders facing left. The print, measuring 156mm by 103mm, is held by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., under accession number NPG.80.284, and is the portrait Wikipedia itself uses as the lead image of its Brigham Young article.
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Rights and Reproduction
Reproduction and CopyrightSourced to the subject's own accountBecause the photograph dates from 1865, it has long since passed out of copyright under United States law, and that freedom from any rights claim, combined with the Smithsonian's own high resolution digitization of the print, made it a natural default choice for reference works needing an unencumbered image of Young, which is presumably why Wikipedia adopted it as the lead portrait of its article rather than a later church-produced photograph still carrying a rights claim. 1 Classification
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This source names Utah directly: "Saints, taken circa 1865 by the Utah photographer Charles William Carter, showing Young's head and shoulders facing left."
Source Brigham Young Photograph, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, Carter, c. 1865)
This source names Washington directly: "Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., under accession number NPG.80.284, and is the portrait Wikipedia itself uses as the lead image of its Brigham Young article."
Source Brigham Young Photograph, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, Carter, c. 1865)
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Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
Depicts
The photograph's sole subject, a Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery holding.
Source Brigham Young Photograph, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, Carter, c. 1865)
Additional Source Brigham Young (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Brigham Young Photograph, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, Carter, c. 1865)
Wikimedia Commonscatalogue record, medium/object-type descriptionQuote, catalogue record, medium/object-type description
An albumen print photograph of Brigham Young, second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, taken circa 1865 by the Utah photographer Charles William Carter, showing Young's head and shoulders facing left.
Brigham Young (Wikipedia)
WikipediaDepicts: Brigham YoungQuote, Depicts: Brigham Young
Charles William Carter - Brigham Young - Google Art Project (3x4 cropped), the encyclopedia's lead image for Brigham Young.
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