File:Mike cat british museum.png

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Description	A photograph of Mike the cat, expressing his opinion of a dog he had just driven out of the courtyard of the British Museum
Author or copyright owner	British Museum
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: 1929 pamphlet Immediate source: http://www.slideshare.net/britishmuseum/mike-the-cat-w-budge-1929
Date of publication	1929
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Mike (cat)
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	One of only three known photographs of Mike, all of which are in the 1929 pamphlet
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	Low-resolution, single article.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	it is a photo of a cat provided gratis to the producer of the pamphlet
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1929
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Mike (cat)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mike_cat_british_museum.pngtrue

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where the individual(s) concerned are deceased, or where access would for practical purposes be impossible,
and for whom there is no known representation under a 'free' license,
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	06:34, 25 November 2017		356 × 280 (93 KB)	Theo's Little Bot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	18:14, 14 January 2016	No thumbnail	432 × 340 (174 KB)	Hillbillyholiday (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

File:Mike cat british museum.png

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