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File:Carson signing Solemn League and Covenant.jpg

Carson_signing_Solemn_League_and_Covenant.jpg ‎(412 × 312 pixels, file size: 18 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description

Edward Carson signing Ulster League and Covenant, 1912.
Source

National Archives of Ireland archive image page http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/exhibition/belfast/main/1.html linked from
slightly cropped version at the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/ulster_covenant/the_covenant_trail.htm
Date

1912
Author

Unknown
Permission
( Reusing this file)

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Reasoning for new PD-UK licence:

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Old justification for retaining on English Wikipedia:

PD in the US since it was published before 1923. However, no source exists for this image, so until this is fixed, its copyright status cannot be determined in its country of origin (Great Britain). This makes this image incompatible with Commons' rules.

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