Dr. Alexis Carrel (Bain News Service, George Grantham Bain Collection)
photograph · 1918
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SUMMARY
Press photograph of Dr. Alexis Carrel from the George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, digital ID ggbain.34418, LCCN 2014708483. The item record carries the rights statement 'No known copyright restrictions' under the Bain Collection's standard blanket clearance. Image sourced via the Wikimedia Commons mirror at File:Dr._Alexis_Carrel_LCCN2014708483.jpg, which cites the same LCCN and Collection provenance. Downloaded at 1024×742 pixels (landscape orientation); no resize required (longest side 1024 px). Note: an initial download attempt using LCCN 2014690887 resolved to a photograph of Francisco and Ernesto Madero (not Carrel); the correct LCCN for the Bain Carrel portrait is 2014708483 / ggbain.34418.
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The George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress is one of the largest collections of early twentieth-century press photography in the United States. Items in the collection carry the standard LoC rights designation “no known copyright restrictions” rather than an explicit public domain declaration, because the Bain agency photographs predate systematic copyright registration for photographs and no successor rights-holder has been identified. The LoC Prints and Photographs Division treats this as equivalent to “no known restrictions on publication.” The image has been present in this collection since the Library’s acquisition of the Bain archive and is reproduced on multiple institutional sites without restriction notice.