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Reasons for believing this to be in the Public Domain:

I recently copied (snipped) and cropped the photo as found in an article published 90 years ago (Willis Linn Jepson. 1929. The Botanical Explorers of California - V. Madrono 1:214-216., available online at: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47993035#page/166/mode/1up).

The subject, Charles Lewis Anderson, died in 1910. The source of the photo was not given in the article. I haven't been able to find the name of the photographer. American botanists (and no doubt other professionals) of the later 1800s sometimes exchanged photos of themselves in lieu of actually meeting, due to the often great distances separating them. The photo used by Jepson may have circulated that way.

The author of the article (Willis Linn Jepson) died 73 years ago.