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Summary
| Description | Publicity photo of actor William Frawley. This photo was taken about six months before he became Fred Mertz in I Love Lucy . |
| Date | There is a 31 March date written on the press release and a 11 April 1951 date stamp. |
| Source | photo back |
| Author | KTTV, Los Angeles. This was a publicity photo for a local KTTV program. In the 1950s and 1960s, television stations, networks, studios and program sponsors often used advertising or publicity agencies to distribute promotional material. In this case, KTTV used advertising agency Young & Rubicam to send out the photos and releases. |
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Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
PD-PRE1978. Note that the marks on the back of the photo are not copyright marks, but either photographers' or collectors' marks. Have shown them right side up for clarification. |
Licensing
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This work is in the
public domain
in the United States because it was
published
in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive,
without a
copyright notice
. For further explanation, see
Commons:Hirtle chart
as well as a
detailed definition
of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the
rule of the shorter term
for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), 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.
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This image has been assessed under the valued image criteria and is considered the most valued image on Commons within the scope: William Frawley . You can see its nomination here . |
