Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Cyrus McCormick engraving (2nd nomination)

Cyrus McCormick engraving (2nd nomination)

Original - Cyrus McCormick invented the reaper and founded the company that would become the backbone of International Harvester

Alt - Removed background, cropped and adjusted levels a bit by Raeky (talk · contribs)

Reason

Earlier today, I had nominated this at Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Cyrus McCormick engraving because the original image was only 640px. However, a higher resolution version has been found so I moved the nomination to Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cyrus McCormick engraving where it stalled. For its age this is a quality image and it has high EV. To add some perspective here, I should note the significance of his family name to WP:CHICAGO with McCormick Place, McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink, McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, McCormick Theological Seminary, and McCormick Tribune Campus Center. Not all were named after Cyrus specifically because his great nephew Robert R. McCormick was also important to the history of the city.

Articles this image appears in

Cyrus McCormick
McCormick Theological Seminary
International Harvester
Reaper
Irish American

Creator

George Smillie

• Support as nominator --TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:21, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
• Support Feel obligated to support the alt, it does add much EV to a few of the articles it's in, probably not all though. — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 01:59, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 09:33, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

• Support < 4 Makeemlighter (talk) 09:33, 29 July 2010 (UTC)