Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/David Herold retouched.jpg
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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/David_Herold_retouched.jpg/250px-David_Herold_retouched.jpg)
- Reason
- Historical importance and high encyclopedic value. Captures strong emotion in the subject's face. Good technical quality for a photo from 1865.
- Articles this image appears in
- David Herold, Alexander Gardner (photographer)
- Creator
- Photo by Alexander Gardner (who is also the author of this featured photo of Abraham Lincoln). Found in the Library of Congress archives and uploaded by Northwesterner1
- Support as nominator Northwesterner1 (talk) 20:06, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
- Support - A strong portrait with high enc value -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 15:46, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- Support. Excellent detail and highly encyclopedic. — BRIAN0918 • 2008-05-01 20:17Z
- Support May look better cropped a little tighter? None the less, good quality. Capital photographer (talk) 00:15, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
- Support. Good detail on a historic picture. Spinach Dip 01:53, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
- Support. Impressive photograph for its age. The expression on his face is worth 10,000 words. (Note: I made a minor edit to the caption. It's Washington Navy Yard without the 's'.
- Support. Good historical photograph involving one of the most widely known events in U.S history.
- Support Great portrait. -- Grandpafootsoldier (talk) 04:23, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
- Support Interesting portrait and story behind it.--Svetovid (talk) 08:59, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
- Support good quality and encyclopedic. SpencerT♦C 19:31, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
- Support Highly encyclopedic and illustrative of the article. --SharkfaceT/C 19:36, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
- Support —αἰτίας •discussion• 22:52, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Promoted Image:David Herold retouched.jpg --jjron (talk) 12:48, 6 May 2008 (UTC)