File:Secret society marking on Seely's castle.jpg

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Description	Cropped photograph of OBC secret society marking on Seely's Castle in Asheville, North Carolina
Source	Ewart M. Ball Photographic Collection
Portion used	Approximately 38%
Low resolution?	The image has been reduced via JPEG compression to 96 dpi
Other information	Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because: 1) It is a historically significant photograph of a notable symbol. 2) Purpose of usage is transformative in that the photograph is being used as evidence of a stated claim. 3) Usage is for a nonprofit educational purpose only. 4) Image is prominent in several online castle databases. 5) Only so much of the original photograph has been used so that the intended subject, the wall marking, can be observed in context. 6) It is of much lower resolution than the original and copies made from it will be of very inferior quality. 7) It is not a suitable substitute for other photographs in the Collection.

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Article	OBC (secret society)
Purpose of use	Depiction of the society's symbol in historical context
Replaceable?	No other free content image of the symbol has been identified

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