It seems likely that PD applies to this photo on several grounds. The photo, taken in
1861, must surely have been published prior to
1923; the author very likely did not live beyond
1906; and there's a good chance that it was taken officially by an Engineer, hence PD-US-gov.
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Image of ''The [[Template:Builder Award|]]'', for major construction of political infrastructure. The photo is of the [[United States Capitol]] building, during reconstruction by the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]] in [[1861]].
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It seems likely that PD applies to this photo on several grounds. The photo, taken in
1861, must surely have been published prior to
1923; the author very likely did not live beyond
1906; and there's a good chance that it was taken officially by an Engineer, hence PD-US-gov.
Licensing
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
This media file is in the public domain in the
United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first
publication occurred prior to January 1, 1929, and if not then due to lack of notice or renewal. See
this page for further explanation.
This image might not be in the public domain outside of the United States; this especially applies in the countries and areas that do not apply the
rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada, Mainland China (not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany, Mexico, and Switzerland. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See
Wikipedia:Public domain and
Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.
The derivative work is my own and I license it under GFDL:
to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the
same or compatible license as the original.
This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL
licensing update.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/CC BY-SA 3.0Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0truetrue
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the
Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License. Subject to
disclaimers.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue
Original upload log
The original description page was
here. All following user names refer to en.wikipedia.
Image of ''The [[Template:Builder Award|]]'', for major construction of political infrastructure. The photo is of the [[United States Capitol]] building, during reconstruction by the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]] in [[1861]].
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