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DescriptionCity of Los Angeles 1944.JPG
Photo of the EMC E2 locomotive LA-1 from the Union Pacific train "City of Los Angeles" from a 1944 Union Pacific Railroad ad.
Date
1944-The railroad marked the ad with "diamond anniversary-1869-1944" at the top and the bottom asks people to buy more war bonds, indicating this was during World War II.
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Union Pacific Railroad.
The ad was published in 1944 as per the diamond anniversary information and can be dated in this way.
There are no copyright markings as can be seen at the original upload.
Any copyright held by the magazine it was published in would not cover the ad because it had no separate copyright marks.
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"A notice for the collective work will not serve as the notice for advertisements inserted on behalf of persons other than the copyright owner of the collective work. These advertisements should each bear a separate notice in the name of the copyright owner of the advertisement."
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This advertisement (or image from an advertisement) is in the public domain because it was published in a collective work (such as a periodical issue) in the United States between 1929 and 1977 and without a copyright notice specific to the advertisement. Unless its author has been dead for several years, it is copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties. See this page for further explanation.
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22:54, 1 December 2012
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Photo has been cropped and auto corrected.
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