File:John Logie Baird, 1st Image.jpg

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Low resolution, fair use image of an historic photograph. Photographer unknown, circa 1926.

Source: Baird television

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Criteria	PD in UK if	PD in US as of 1st January 1996 if
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A work by an identifiable author	Published by an author who died prior to 1956	Published by an author who died prior to 1926
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"the off-screen photograph of Oliver Hutchinson by Lafayette, the earliest photograph of a television image, first appeared in The Electrician of June 1926 (see figure 3-13)" from McLean, Donald F. (2000). Restoring Baird's Image. IET. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-85296-795-9.; the figure shown in the book is the same photo as here.