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Original - Portrait of Alice Manfield (Guide Alice) in the early 1900s; mountain guide, naturalist, photographer, and chalet owner, based at Mt Buffalo, Victoria, Australia
Reason
Seems to be a systemic bias against mountain guides at FPC; in particular against female mountain guides from the early 1900s. Actually, this is possibly the only such photo on Wikipedia. And, to be serious, there's a lack of FPs of females in general, especially outside of 'traditional' female roles. Great insight to not just this individual, but the type of equipment, etc, of the time (she had to custom design her own clothes because none were available). High-res, and well restored (the original 50MB tiff can be found here if anyone's interested; given it only got to the SLV in 2003, the glass slide was a bit battered). I believe quality is easily on par with other FPs from the time, especially given the size (the exact date is unknown, but I estimate 1900–10).
Articles in which this image appears
Alice Manfield, Mountain guide, Knickerbockers (clothing), Trekking pole
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
Creator
Unknown. Original is held at the State Library of Victoria. Restored by jjron.

Promoted File:Alice Manfield - Guide Alice, Mt Buffalo, c1900-30, SLV.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 23:02, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]