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Author	Michael Phelan
Description	Man playing billiards with cue and woman with mace, from an illustration appearing on page 44 of Michael Phelan's 1859 book, The Game of Billiards (D. Appleton & Company, New York).
Date	published 1859
Source/Photographer	Google books digitized image;
Permission (Reusing this file)	Copyright expired—The author, Michael Phelan (the "father of American billiards"), died in 1871

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	15:31, 22 February 2017	794 × 521 (64 KB)	McGeddon	Upload a fresh, higher-quality screengrab of the Google Books page, looks like they may have rescanned it since 2007.
	06:43, 30 August 2009	696 × 427 (176 KB)	Fuhghettaboutit	Try again
	06:33, 30 August 2009	427 × 240 (32 KB)	Fuhghettaboutit	Reverted to version as of 00:53, 8 April 2009
	06:32, 30 August 2009	348 × 226 (57 KB)	Fuhghettaboutit	Higher quality version
	00:53, 8 April 2009	427 × 240 (32 KB)	SMcCandlish	Foreground cleanup.
	09:06, 21 February 2008	427 × 300 (36 KB)	SMcCandlish
	23:21, 18 February 2008	427 × 300 (36 KB)	SMcCandlish
	07:23, 13 January 2007	427 × 300 (30 KB)	Fuhghettaboutit	{{Information \|Description= Man playing billiards with cue and woman with mace, from an illustration appearing on page 44 of Michael Phelan's 1859 book, ''The Game of Billiards'' (D. Appleton & Company, New York). \|Source= [http://books.google.com/books?v