METHUSELAH ARCHIVE SOURCES / COMMONS-DAVID-SINCLAIR-PORTRAIT-2020

File:David Sinclair.jpg

photograph · 2020
type:photograph
year:2020
citation:Editor5627. 'David Sinclair.jpg.' Wikimedia Commons, 19 March 2020. CC BY-SA 4.0.
LINK
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Sinclair.jpg
SUMMARY
Wikimedia Commons file page, description 'David Sinclair in March 2020,' uploaded by user Editor5627 under CC BY-SA 4.0 (confirmed directly on the fetched file page). The photograph shows a smiling man in a white lab coat embroidered 'David Sinclair, Ph.D.' with a Harvard crest, arms crossed, in a laboratory setting; the file is used to illustrate David A. Sinclair across multiple Wikipedia language editions. No separate holding institution is linked (a Commons-only upload), but the embroidered name and crest visible in the photograph itself, together with the file's consistent cross-wiki use to illustrate the Harvard geneticist, support the identification. A dated `media-search` sweep of the four supported archives (Wellcome Collection, Library of Congress, BnF/Gallica, Wikimedia Commons) for this contemporary subject, run 3 July 2026, surfaced no institutionally-held portrait of Sinclair in any of the three non-Commons archives; this Commons upload is the only candidate actor image found and is treated as an accepted residual under that documented search.
NOTES

Actor-role source for the case’s portrait image. Institutionally-unaffiliated Commons upload, but the identification is supported both by the archive record’s own title/description and by visible identifying text in the photograph (embroidered name and Harvard crest on the lab coat).