William Thomas Stearn.jpg

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Description	William Thomas Stearn, British botanist and horticulturalist. 1974
Source	From Russian Wikipedia which provides Gardening in the lines as source. Also appears in Flora of North America which provides information on photographer, date and provenance as follows - William T. Stearn, 1974. Photo by W. Hodge, courtesy of the Hunt Institute Archives.
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While the author, American botanist Walter H. Hodge's year of death is known, which is 2013 (plus 70 years, therefore supposedly January 1, 2084), this photograph was published in 1974, long before the author's death. Therefore, the copyright will expire earlier on January 1, 2070, 95 years after it was published.

	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:44, 22 February 2017		262 × 379 (16 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	14:39, 2 December 2016	No thumbnail	550 × 796 (66 KB)	Michael Goodyear (talk \| contribs)	From Russian Wikipedia https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:William_Thomas_Stearn.jpg This file is not free (does not meet the definition of free cultural works). In accordance with the decision of the Wikimedia Foundation, it can be...

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