In today’s NY Times, Floyd Norris profiles congressman Elbridge Gerry Spaulding who was instrumental in establishing the US Dollar as federal currency. The column is illustrated with a Matthew Brady portrait. At the bottom of the photo is the credit, which reads “Matthew Brady – Wikipedia”. What?!
This strikes me as a pretty strange. I guessed it was probably a Library of Congress image, in the public domain, which is being used on Wikipedia. A quick trip to Google shows, sure enough, Wikipedia sourced the image from the Library of Congress. Is this an unforeseen effect of the Wikipedia vacuum that is pulling in public domain images from around the world? Is this is correct credit or should it go to LoC?