Commons:Valued image candidates/Benjamin D. Maxham - Henry David Thoreau - Restored.jpg

Benjamin D. Maxham - Henry David Thoreau - Restored.jpg

promoted

Image
Nominated by	Scewing (talk) on 2013-03-02 17:52 (UTC)
Scope	Nominated as the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Photographs of Thoreau
Used in	Global usage en:Henry David Thoreau, en:Pacifism, en:Tax Resistance, en:Conscience, fr:Henry David Thoreau etc.
Reason	Henry David Thoreau only sat for his photograph twice, and this restored image is from his earliest sitting. When an admirer wrote to Thoreau from Michigan in 1856 asking for Thoreau's daguerreotype and enclosing money to defray its cost, the author reluctantly obliged. A visit to Maxham's Daguerrean Palace yielded this 50-cent portrait, which Thoreau dutifully sent to the requestor along with $1.70 in change. -- Scewing (talk)
Review (criteria)	Support it is useful to link the scope to the category. Very useful --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 19:05, 2 March 2013 (UTC)  Support best because of resolution. Nice and interesting story too. I've linked the "used in".--Jebulon (talk) 20:07, 2 March 2013 (UTC)  Support for being one of the two existing photos and for illustrating the related story. --Dvdgmz (talk) 08:56, 6 March 2013 (UTC) Result: 3 support, 0 oppose => promoted. Godot13 (talk) 00:33, 9 March 2013 (UTC)  Oppose Now we have the same image, but with a complete restoration: File:Benjamin D. Maxham - Henry David Thoreau - Restored - greyscale - straightened.jpg. @Scewing, Archaeodontosaurus, Jebulon, and Dvdgmz: Regards, Yann (talk) 12:12, 1 April 2019 (UTC)  Support - On the contrary, this one looks better to me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:26, 2 April 2019 (UTC) Scores: 1. Benjamin D. Maxham - Henry David Thoreau - Restored - greyscale - straightened.jpg: -3 2. Benjamin D. Maxham - Henry David Thoreau - Restored.jpg: (current VI within same scope) <-- 3. Benjamin D. Maxham - Henry David Thoreau - Restored - sepia - straightened.jpg: -1 => File:Benjamin D. Maxham - Henry David Thoreau - Restored - greyscale - straightened.jpg: Declined. File:Benjamin D. Maxham - Henry David Thoreau - Restored.jpg: Former VI, no change. <-- File:Benjamin D. Maxham - Henry David Thoreau - Restored - sepia - straightened.jpg: Declined. --Yann (talk) 09:51, 22 April 2019 (UTC)