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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ira Roe Foster - Brigadier General (circa 1850)

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Original – both the subject, and the photograph itself, are historically significant. This image is from the early period of photographic portraits - of an individual who was an active participant in many of the key political events of his day.
Reason
A historically significant image of a Georgia Militia General taken within a few years of the first photographic portrait extant
Articles in which this image appears
Ira Roe Foster
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History
Creator
the creator of this image is Iris Smale, a descendant, who owns the original. The creator of the original image is lost to time.

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 13:38, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]