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Summary
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English:
Detail from
Government
. Mural by Elihu Vedder. Lobby to Main Reading Room, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. Main figure is seated atop a pedestal saying "GOVERNMENT" and holding a tablet saying "A GOVERNMENT / OF THE PEOPLE / BY THE PEOPLE / FOR THE PEOPLE". Artist's signature is "ELIHU VEDDER / ROMA–1896".
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| Source | Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-02036 (original digital file), uncompressed archival TIFF version (76 MB) , cropped and converted to JPEG with the GIMP 2.4.5, image quality 88. |
| Author | Artist is Elihu Vedder (1836–1923). Photographed 2007 by Carol Highsmith (1946–), who explicitly placed the photograph in the public domain. |
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| Other versions | Image:Government-Vedder-Highsmith.jpeg , Image:Government-Vedder-Highsmith-detail-2.jpeg |
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Library of Congress
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Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID highsm.02036 . 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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Licensing
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This work is from the
Carol M. Highsmith Archive
collection at the
Library of Congress
. According to the library, there are
no known copyright restrictions
on the use of this work.
Carol M. Highsmith has stipulated that her photographs are in the public domain. Photographs of sculpture or other works of art may be restricted by the copyright of the artist. |
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