File:William B. Ruger and Alexander McCormick Sturm 1950.jpg
William_B._Ruger_and_Alexander_McCormick_Sturm_1950.jpg (266 × 226 pixels, file size: 28 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary
| Description | Black and white photo showing business partners William B. Ruger and Alexander McCormick Sturm in 1950. They co-founded the American firearms company, Sturm, Ruger & Co. in 1949. |
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| Author or copyright owner |
unknown |
| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | Original publication: The original photo shows the complete torsos of the subjects along with the Ambassador from Brazil and another individual to whom they were giving a tour of their factory in 1950. An example of the original photo is shown on page 22 of R.I. Wilson's, RUGER AND HIS GUNS: A History of the Man, the Company, and Their Firearms (2008). Immediate source: http://www.jaktojagare.se/en/article.php?id=319220. This is a cropped version of the original, showing a closeup of the co-founders. |
| Date of publication | 1950 |
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | Alexander McCormick Sturm |
| Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article. The boxed quote within the article by Bill Ruger specifically talks about Alex Sturm's appearance, his suit, beard, mannerism, etc. This photo was chosen to illustrate that story focus. |
| Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) |
Subject deceased since 1950s. unable to locate free alternative image through Library of Congress and other Internet searches. |
| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | This is the only image of Sturm to be utilized in the article. The image from the website source was cropped, and the subsequent version to be used in the Wikipedia article is reduced in resolution. |
| Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
By reducing the black and white image to not be comparable to its source, any commercial viability of the original is not compromised. |
| Other information | The subjects of the photograph, are both deceased. Alexander McCormick Sturm died November 16, 1951 and William B. Ruger died July 6, 2002. This image specifically chosen because it demonstrates more than one important theme covered in the article, and is strictly being used for educational purposes to illustrate aforementioned themes. |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Alexander McCormick Sturm//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_B._Ruger_and_Alexander_McCormick_Sturm_1950.jpgtrue | |
Licensing
 | This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Alexander McCormick Sturm":
qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights. |
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| current | 12:14, 31 May 2012 | | 266 × 226 (28 KB) | Evenrød | Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard |
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