File:Delphine LaLaurie memorial plate.jpg

For use in article Delphine LaLaurie. Black and white photograph of copper plate found in St. Louis Cemetery #1 by Eugene Backes in the late 1930s. Text reads: "Madame Lalaurie, nee Marie Delphine Maccarthy, decedee a Paris, le' 7 decembre, 1842, a l'age de 6 --." Dated: January 28, 1941 (first known publication). Image may have been created as much as four or five years earlier.Appears to be Eugene Backes. First publisher is the Times-Picayune.

Originally published in the Times-Picayune (January 28, 1941). This version of the image sourced from a reproduction at this site: [1]

Delphine LaLaurie

Yes

(1) This image falls under acceptable fair use (scholastic works) as only a small portion of the original image has been used, being the minimum necessary to identify and authenticate the place and year of death of a notable individual, the image is at sufficiently low resolution to not defeat the commercial value of the original, and no known free image of this plate exists. (2) The image also falls under fair use (unique historic image) as it is unknown whether this plate still exists and as such this is a unique and irreplacable historic image.

A higher resolution version of this image can be found in the original (print) publication of the Times-Picayune (January 28, 1941).