Publicity photo of American blues musician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Patton" class="extiw" title="w:Charley Patton">Charley Patton</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Records" class="extiw" title="w:Paramount Records">Paramount Records</a>, promoting him as the "King of the Delta Blues".
Photo published by Paramount Records. Photographer uncredited and unknown.
Originally published and distributed in 1929–30 by Paramount Records. This image is from the following reproduction:
<p>Tefteller, John (2003). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/DinosaurDiscs/78+Quarterly+No+12.pdf">Gold in Grafton! Long lost Paramount photos, artwork, 78s surface after 70 years!</a>" <i>78 Quarterly</i>. No. 12. p. 12. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151017174109/https://s3.amazonaws.com/DinosaurDiscs/78+Quarterly+No+12.pdf">Archived</a> from the original on October 17, 2015.
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The image has been retouched to remove an inaccurate copyright notice.