File:Charles Alexander Mentry.jpg

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1. The person depicted is C.A. Mentry – the man who in 1876 drilled Well No. 4, a National Historic Landmark, the first commercially successfully oil well in California. No known free use images of Mentry are available.
2. The image does not in any way limit the ability of the copyright owners to market or sell their product.
3. The image is only used once and is rendered in low resolution to avoid piracy.
4. The image has been published outside Wikipedia; see source above.
5. The image meets general Wikipedia content requirements and is encyclopedic.
6. The image meets Wikipedia's media-specific policy.
7. The image is needed to identify Mentry for educational purposes in an encyclopedia entry and significantly improves the quality of the article.
8. The image has a brief description that identifies the image, notes the source, and provides attribution to the copyright holder.

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