Image: Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1938 publicity photo - headshot)

Description: Publicity photo of American musician Sister Rosetta Tharpe in 1938.
Title: Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1938 publicity photo - headshot)
Credit: The photo was first published as a publicity photo. Original source: Scan of the full original publicity photo via WorthPoint. A crop of this scan can be found in the upload history below as additional verification of the lack of copyright notice. Instant source: Scan via PBS American Masters photo gallery, which reproduces a copy of the original photograph held by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Author: James J. Kriegsmann
Permission: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1926 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.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No