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File:Wallis Simpson -1936.JPG

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Portrait of Wallis Simpson, 1936
Date Published in The Sketch. The sources indicate that it was created on December 3, 1936 and published on December 9, 1936
Source http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/art/167955/Wallis_Simpson_1936
http://www.ilnpictures.co.uk/ProductDetails.asp?ProductDetailID=84068
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=1&language=en-US&family=creative&p=3097429&src=quick
Author English Photographer None of the sources name the photographer, they presumably would if he was known.
Public domain logo This UK artistic work, of which the author is unknown and cannot be ascertained by reasonable enquiry, is in the public domain because it is one of the following:
  • A photograph, which has never previously been made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) and which was taken more than 70 years ago (before 1st January 1943); or
  • A photograph, which was made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1943); or
  • An artistic work other than a photograph (e.g. a painting), which was made available to the public (e.g. by publication or display at an exhibition) more than 70 years ago (before 1 January 1943).

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See Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 10#Image:Wallis Simpson -1936.JPG for previous discussion confirming the public domain tag.

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