User talk:Garski80

The article on John Fox Potter has an image taken from the Bradley collection of Civil War era photographs, Library of Congress that is dubious. The image allegedly of John Fox Potter, was only identified as him because the sleeve of the negative (not the image itself) had an annotation of JF Potter. If you compare this to other verifiable photos and etchings of John Fox Potter you will see a number of problems; 1-from 1856 through his death in 1899 all images show a bearded man (the Wikipedia article photo shows a clean shaven man); 2-all known images of JFP show a man with strait hair, combed and parted (the Wikipedia article photo shows a man with curly hair, significantly different from JFP); 3- the facial structure of JFP in the 156-1899 images seems to be quite different from the Wikipedia image -4- in my considerable research into JFP I have never seen the image used by Wikipedia in any other publication or document (while most of the 1856-1899 etchings and photos appear repeatedly) - 6- amongst his personal possessions held by the Wisconsin State Historical Society is a well used moustache comb and beard trimming set, something the clean shaven impersonatory would clearly not need - I seriously doubt the image alleged to depict JFP in the Wikipedia Article is IN FACT really JFP Garski80 (talk) 19:04, 21 April 2014 (UTC) --Garski80 (talk) 19:04, 21 April 2014 (UTC)