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Robert B. Evans -- scan of American Motors Corporation (AMC) public relations materials -- for publicity of the company and its executive.

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The name of the photographer is unknown.
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It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate:

the person(s), product, event, or subject in question
where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	01:27, 22 March 2007	295×375 (46 KB)	CZmarlin (Talk \| contribs)	(Robert B. Evans -- scan of American Motors Corporation (AMC) public relations materials -- for publicity of the company and its executive. {{Promophoto}} == Fair use for "Robert_B_Evans_AMC_PR_picture.jpg"== The limited use of this image in Wikipedia)