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Carrie Chapman Catt[edit]

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Original – Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and co-founder of the League of Women Voters and the International Alliance of Women
Reason
I have a vague memory - remembering I have been on wikibreak for two years - that last time I checked, there wasn't anything really good for Carrie Chapman Catt. Now there's loads and loads. I can only presume that the Library of Congress went back and uploaded higher-resolution scans of things. This isn't the lead in her article, because facing right is awkward for a lead image. I might go back and do the lead image as well sometime, but I do think this is the best image of her out there, full of character and liveliness.

I have taken the liberty of changing it from awkward truncated oval to rectangular - given the chiascuro lighting effects popular around 1910-1920, this really doesn't involve much guesswork; everything fades out to darkness at the bottom anyway, and there's basically no detail there anyway.

Articles in which this image appears
Carrie Chapman Catt, National American Woman Suffrage Association. I'm sure it could be used elsewhere.
FP category for this image
Any objections to Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political? It's going to be some subdivision of People, anyway.
Creator
Joint Suffrage Procession Committee(?), restored by Adam Cuerden
  • Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs 17:48, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – Bammesk (talk) 02:41, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – DreamSparrow Chat 11:28, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment If you think it's the best image of her, would it not be better places as a the lead image in the main article? Mattximus (talk) 22:52, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Mattximus: There is the idea that faces should be looking towards the article text. This means a right-facing image ideally should be on the left-hand side, which precludes it being the lead image. But there are reasons for it to be the lead as well - it's the clearest and easiest to interpret picture I could find of her. I'll leave it to others where it ends up, though. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs 02:27, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      • Would a horizontal flip help? MER-C 20:40, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
        • Pretty sure that's explicitly forbidden in one of the guidelines. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.9% of all FPs 20:41, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. MER-C 20:40, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 17:59, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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