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  1. The author and source of the content is clearly cited.
  2. Any additional copyright information about the photograph from the Smithsonian Institution website is included.
  3. None of the content is modified or altered.

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  • where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it,
  • on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,
  • with the above information clearly included,

falls under the fair use provision as outlined above. Any other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the Library of Congress ID numbers of the work and any known copyright information. This work may have been published before 1923 and may be considered in the public domain in the United States.