Gaylord Wilshire, c. 1908 (from The Arena)
photograph · 1908
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SUMMARY
A halftone portrait of Gaylord Wilshire from about 1908, used as a second actor image at case level to show the promoter roughly two decades before the I-ON-A-CO. Hosted on Wikimedia Commons; rights read from the Commons imageinfo extmetadata on 2026-06-13 (License 'pd' / UsageTerms 'Public domain'), date 1908, source given as The Arena magazine (archive.org stream of The Arena vol. 40, 1908). Identification basis: the Commons file record names the subject as Gaylord Wilshire and sources the image to The Arena (1908); there is no in-image label or signature, so the name, date, and publication rest on the archive record, which is the permitted basis. An independent vision-capable reviewer on 2026-06-13 confirmed the visible content (a halftone portrait of a younger bearded man) is consistent and that the caption does not over-claim what is visible. Commons-hosted record sourced to a periodical (The Arena) rather than to one of the four named institutional archives. On 2026-06-13, of the four supported archives, a Wikimedia Commons search surfaced this file; a Library of Congress search returned no held portrait of Wilshire, and Wellcome Collection and BnF/Gallica hold no record of this American subject. No institutional holding record was found, so this is an accepted-residual second actor image.
NOTES
A circa-1908 halftone portrait of Gaylord Wilshire reproduced from the reform periodical The Arena, used as a second actor image to show Wilshire as a younger man, well before his medical-merchandising period. The image is hosted on Wikimedia Commons under a public-domain status and is sourced by the file record to The Arena, volume 40 (1908). The subject identification and date come from the Commons record and its periodical source rather than from any visible label; the caption is hedged accordingly (‘around 1908’) and was confirmed not to over-claim by an independent vision-capable reviewer.