Gayelord Hauser, 1930 (Evening Star advertisement)
photograph · 1930
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SUMMARY
A photograph of Gayelord Hauser taken from a period advertisement in the Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 27 March 1930, page C-12, reproduced on Wikimedia Commons (confirmed by direct fetch of the file's Commons description page, 7 July 2026). The Commons page tags the work public domain on the ground that it was published in the US in 1930 and the copyright was not renewed (the applicable rule for US works published 1930-1963 without renewal). 409x543px. Author of the underlying advertisement photograph is not credited (anonymous/studio). Used as the practitioner portrait (actor role); the fact that the image itself originates from a commercial advertisement for Hauser is noted in the caption as supporting, not asserted-beyond-record, context. STEP 3b media-search queried all four supported archives (Wellcome Collection, Library of Congress, BnF/Gallica, Wikimedia Commons) at once for Hauser imagery (2026-07-07); only Wikimedia Commons returned a usable actor portrait, so this Commons-only source is an accepted residual after a documented cross-archive search, not an unexamined gap.
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This 1930 photograph of Gayelord Hauser is reproduced from a period newspaper advertisement (Evening Star, Washington, D.C., 27 March 1930, page C-12) and survives on Wikimedia Commons tagged public domain under the US pre-1964 no-renewal rule. Its origin in an advertisement is itself a small piece of documentary evidence for the case’s financial-conflict thread (Hauser’s own image was used to sell products from early in his career) and is noted in the media caption without over-claiming what the single record can support.