Gaylord Wilshire, 1924 (studio portrait)
photograph · 1924
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SUMMARY
A 1924 studio portrait of Gaylord Wilshire, used as the actor image for the practitioner. Hosted on Wikimedia Commons; rights read from the Commons imageinfo extmetadata on 2026-06-13 (License 'pd' / UsageTerms 'Public domain'), date 1924, artist unknown, credited to the Los Angeles Conservancy (laconservancy.org). Identification basis: the photograph carries a visible in-image signature reading 'Gaylord Wilshire 1924,' which an independent vision-capable reviewer confirmed on 2026-06-13 supports both the name and the date; the Commons file title and the Los Angeles Conservancy credit page corroborate the identification. This is a Commons-hosted record. On 2026-06-13, of the four supported archives, a Wikimedia Commons search surfaced this and other Wilshire portraits, while a Library of Congress search returned no held portrait and Wellcome Collection and BnF/Gallica hold no record of this American subject; the holding credit points to the Los Angeles Conservancy rather than to one of the four named institutional archives. No better institutional holding record was found, so this is the accepted-residual actor image for the practitioner. Contemporary with the case era (1925-1927).
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The 1924 studio portrait of Gaylord Wilshire, used as the practitioner’s actor image and contemporary with his promotion of the I-ON-A-CO. The image is hosted on Wikimedia Commons under a public-domain status, credited to the Los Angeles Conservancy, and carries a visible signature in the print reading ‘Gaylord Wilshire 1924,’ which supplies the identification and date directly. The same bearded likeness appears as the inset portrait in the I-ON-A-CO advertisement. The caption keeps to what the file record and the visible signature assert.