Chalkley John

Photo from Dawn on Thunder Mountain (1958), by Marius John: https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/41905705/person/350146024274/media/9fa35fe7-aa9e-44ea-af99-395e1c828bb3?_phsrc=bJA69&usePUBJs=true&galleryindex=1&albums=pg&showGalleryAlbums=true&tab=0&pid=350146024274 This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs. 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 (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties. There is a valid copyright registration: https://books.google.com/books?id=MR4hAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1259&lpg=PA1259&dq=%22DAWN+ON+THUNDER+MOUNTAIN%22+marius+john&source=bl&ots=Yv4R-Gl7Wm&sig=ACfU3U3B6mvog8PCocU61hc6CK9L9q2zkg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiv3r76jLmFAxX9amwGHRs8DtYQ6AF6BAgKEAM#v=onepage&q=%22DAWN%20ON%20THUNDER%20MOUNTAIN%22%20marius%20john&f=false However, there is no record of copyright renewal: https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=dawn+on+thunder+mountain&Search_Code=TALL&PID=06k9holvTVUtwKScdTT-RUPQzEIoQC&SEQ=20240410222643&CNT=25&HIST=1 Therefore, this photograph entered public domain on January 1, 1986, 27 years after it was published in 1958.