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OriginalAletta Jacobs, c.1900
Reason
Notable suffragette, and first woman to attend a university in the Netherlands, and at least amongst the first female physicians. Image is high-quality, and, while round may not be ideal, it's not bad at all. She's likely more notable in the Netherlands than the main Anglosphere, but diversity is a good thing.
Articles in which this image appears
Aletta Jacobs
FP category for this image
Either Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Political for the suffragette aspect, or Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Science and engineering for the physician aspect
Creator
Max Büttinghausen (1847 - 1906); restored by Adam Cuerden. Researched by SusunW
  • Support – Since I asked Adam to work on a photo of her in the first place and it took me almost a year to find an image that would make a good candidate for restoration. In addition to her activism and medical practice in the Netherlands, Jacobs was an extremely important and influential international women's rights activist. Active in the leadership of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, as well as influential in the US contraception movement. Besides the archive of her records in the Netherlands, her library of personal books resides in the US. I am no expert of photography, but it appears to meet the FA criteria and is verifiable as being in the public domain. SusunW (talk) 22:05, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@SusunW: You're welcome! It was an excellent find, and I was glad to help! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.5% of all FPs 00:55, 19 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Aletta Jacobs, 1895-1905.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 07:01, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]