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Photo of Matthew Stirling, posing beside Altar 5 at La Venta. This is a still from Exploring Hidden Mexico (1943) from the Smithsonian Institute National Anthropological Archives.

Although this still, part of a film copyrighted by the Smithsonian, is still under copyright, inclusion here qualifies for Fair Use under US Copyright law because:

It is used for a non-commercial and educational purpose as allowed by the Smithsonian.
It is representative of Matthew Stirling, showing him with Altar 5 at La Venta, one of his most famous discoveries.
There is no public domain photo available of Matthew Stirling since he only became notable after 1923. He passed away in 1975, so it is of course no longer possible to take a photo of him.
It is only a small part of the overall work, i.e. a single frame from just one of the Smithsonian's films on Stirling.
It should not affect the commercial viability of the copyright.

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This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Matthew William Stirling)" :

To illustrate the subject in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([1]),

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

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current	02:46, 28 August 2006	600×430 (43 KB)	Madman2001 (Talk \| contribs)	(Photo of Matthew Stirling, posing beside Altar 5 at La Venta. This is a still from ''Exploring Hidden Mexico'' (1943) from the Smithsonian Institute National Anthropological Archives. Although this still, part of a film copyrighted by the Smithson)