File:Elsie Leslie (1899) by Zaida Ben-Yusuf.jpg

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Summary

Author



Alternative names	Zaydah Ibn Yūsuf; Zaydah Bin Yūsuf; Ben-Yusuf, Zaida
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	21 November 1869	27 September 1933
Location of birth/death	London	Brooklyn
Work period	1897 –1905
Work location	New York City
Authority file	: Q144293 VIAF: 13534208 ISNI: 0000000037467115 ULAN: 500081622 LCCN: n2004118654 GND: 135709075 WorldCat

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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 of America

Description

English: American actress Elsie Leslie (1881-1966) in costume as Lydia Languish in Richard Sheridan's play The Rivals. Photograph exhibited at the 2nd Philadelphia Photo Salon, 1899, and in "The life and portrait photography of Zaida Ben-Yusuf" at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2008.

Date

1899

Source

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID ppmsca.15879.
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Licensing

The author died in 1933, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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	01:29, 4 July 2016	3,332 × 5,669 (11.6 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js: Levels tweak
	01:14, 4 July 2016	3,332 × 5,669 (10.84 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	01:05, 4 July 2016	3,332 × 5,669 (10.84 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	23:20, 3 July 2016	3,332 × 5,669 (10.85 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js: Checking other copy on LoC, which has a colour bar, this should be more accurate.
	23:09, 3 July 2016	3,332 × 5,669 (12.91 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	10:01, 16 February 2009	495 × 912 (228 KB)	Mu	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=American actress Elsie Leslie (1881-1966) in costume as Lydia Languish in Richard Sheridan's play ''The Rivals''. Photograph exhibited at the 2nd Philadelphia Photo Salon, 1899, and in "The life and portrait photography o