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Voting period ends on 26 Jan 2012 at 06:37:31 (UTC)

OriginalMark Satin (far left) counseling draft-age Americans at Canada's largest draft-dodger assistance organization, Toronto, August 1967
Reason
Good quality, well composed image. Strong encyclopedic value (EV). Meshes perfectly with the draft-dodger sub-sections of the Mark Satin biography on Wikipedia.
Articles in which this image appears
Mark Satin
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/War
Creator
Laura Jones
  • Support as nominator - I was there, and this photo beautifully evokes the feel of that place and time - the dank and crowded and bunker-like "inner" counseling room at the anti-draft office in the middle of Toronto, the intense young people trying to be calm and rational but really feeling bewildered and alone. It provides a rare peek into a vastly undereported-upon episode in American military (and civilian) history. -Babel41 (talk) 06:37, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Conditional Support Please make the article caption and image caption reflect which person in the shot is Mark Satin. JJ Harrison (talk) 10:03, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Done: Good idea. Have now done so (a) here, (b) in the Wikipedia article caption, and (c) in the Wikimedia description. - Babel41 (talk) 20:36, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Note from nominator: I e-mailed Laura Jones in Toronto to let her know that I put her photo up here, and she immediately responded with the support statement above. She is not an experienced Wikipedia user - I had to splice her statement from out of the photo caption and move it to this spot. I then spliced in her username from out of this photo's history page. Btw, Laura is a professional photographer - within a year of emigrating to Canada, she and John founded Toronto's Baldwin Street Gallery of photography, which they ran for many decades. - Babel41 (talk) 04:15, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Draft dodgers being counseled 1967.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 22:31, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]