Photograph of William Radam (Wikimedia Commons)
photograph · 1890
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SUMMARY
Wikimedia Commons archival record for a photographic portrait of William Radam, taken from his 1890 book Microbes and the Microbe Killer. Commons imageinfo read 2026-06-11: ImageDescription 'Photograph of William Radam.', DateTimeOriginal 1890, Credit 'Microbes and the Microbe Killer. New York.', LicenseShortName and UsageTerms 'Public domain'; native size 844 x 1209 px. The archive record names the subject as William Radam, so the caption identifies him; the visible content (a bearded man in a suit seated beside a small table bearing a microscope and a jug lettered 'MICROBE KILLER') was confirmed by direct vision inspection of the downloaded file and matches the book's 'after' portrait of Radam at a microscope. Source for the actor-role media entity radam-portrait. The portrait is a plate from Radam's 1890 book, the underlying copies of which are held institutionally by the Wellcome Collection (work yyfshjxr, Public Domain Mark) and the US National Library of Medicine / Internet Archive (b21499457); the Commons file is the digitized derivative used as the asset because its public-domain status is machine-verifiable. Rights: public domain (PD by age; the work is an 1890 photograph).
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This Wikimedia Commons record is the archival source for the portrait of William Radam used as the case’s actor-role image. The photograph comes from Radam’s own 1890 book and shows him seated beside a microscope and a jug of his Microbe Killer, the staged image of the cured inventor turned investigator. The Commons record names the subject and marks the work public domain; a vision inspection of the file confirmed the seated bearded man, the microscope, and the “MICROBE KILLER” lettering on the table. The image is attached as portrait_media_id on the practitioner entity.