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Known Photographers and the Race Riot

One of the goals of working with the photographers is to try to determine their copyright status.  Why?  Because if we don't know their status and who took them, they must be considered "orphan works", which means they remain under copyright for the foreseable future.

Please allow me to demonstrate:

Name                                             Date enters Public Domain

1. Orphan Works                                      2042
2. Alvin C. Krupnick d. about 1942              2012
3. Francis A. Schmidt  d. 1944                    2014
4. Earl A. Trager d. 1978                           2048
5. James Sidney Sweeney  d. 1949             2019