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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Towson United Methodist Church
Description	Towson Methodist Protestant Church, as it appeared c. 1920s, a forerunner of the present Towson United Methodist Church, in Towson, Maryland
Source	Photograph by Carl Behm at Baltimore County Legacy Web, the photo archive of Baltimore County Public Library: photo id=17526
Article	Towson United Methodist Church
Portion used	cropped and uploaded by User:JGHowes
Low resolution?	Yes
Purpose of use	It is believed that this reduced, low-resolution version depicting the Towson Methodist Protestant Church is permissible Fair Use solely for the Wikipedia article about its successor Towson United Methodist Church because: it portrays this historically significant structure as it appeared when it was the Towson Methodist Protestant Church; as a forerunner of today's Towson United Methodist Church, its depiction is necessary for the reader's understanding of the church's development in a more adequate manner than mere prose alone can convey; as a greatly reduced, low-resolution version, this image is non-reproducible for commercial purposes. use of this low-resolution version does not diminish the value of the original media to the copyright holder nor interfere with the media's original purpose, nor will it dilute the importance or recognition of this image in connection with the copyright-holder. it meets all criteria in WP:NFCC.
Replaceable?	Not replaceable. It is a unique, non-reproducible historic event and no free alternatives are known to exist or can be created, as the building is no longer used as a church and Towson Methodist Protestant Church no longer exists as a discrete ecclesiastical entity.

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The image is low resolution and of no larger and of no higher quality than is necessary for the illustration of an article, and the use of the image on Wikipedia is not expected to decrease the value of the copyright,
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.

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This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: (by uploader) removed unwanted elements, whitebalance, leaning, and sharpening.

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current	16:59, 2 April 2008	509×303 (57 KB)	JGHowes (Talk \| contribs)	({{Non-free media rationale \|Article=Towson United Methodist Church \|Description='''Towson Methodist Protestant Church''', as it appeared c. 1920s, a forerunner of the present Towson United Methodist Church, in Towson, Maryland \|Source=Pho)