File:Joseph Merrick carte de visite photo, c. 1889.jpg

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Author	UnknownUnknown I (User:Belovedfreak) have emailed the Royal London Hospital Archives to request information regarding the author. The Trust Archivist for Barts and The London NHS Trust has confirmed that they do not know the name of the photographer, and no such name is included on the carte de visite.
Description	English: Joseph Merrick (1862-1890). The photograph was circulated to members of the public c. 1889 as a Carte de visite. This photograph was first published in The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity by Ashley Montagu (first published in London and the United States in 1971; OCLC: 732266137) Čeština: Joseph Merrick na fotografii z roku 1889
Date	circa 1889 date QS:P571,+1889-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source	Photograph downloaded from Sideshow Wiki (direct image link) The image hosted at the Sideshow Wiki is a copy of an original carte de visite of Joseph Merrick that is owned by Royal London Hospital Archives. Royal London Hospital ref: RLHLH/P/3/24/2. The carte de visite in the Royal London Hospital Archives had been in the possession of the Rev. H. Tristram Valentine, who was Chaplain at the London Hospital from 1885–1889.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	12:04, 3 July 2022	960 × 1,600 (181 KB)	FMSky	Reverted to version as of 09:21, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
	08:19, 18 February 2015	960 × 1,562 (344 KB)	The Arty Farty Cool Dude	a slight crop
	09:21, 22 June 2011	960 × 1,600 (181 KB)	Belovedfreak	Larger version from Sideshow Wiki
	04:52, 17 June 2011	222 × 370 (24 KB)	Doc9871