Image: Thomas Pynchon, high school yearbook editor, 1953

Description: Portrait of American author Thomas Pynchon as a high school senior, age 16, at Oyster Bay High School. The image is cropped from a group photo of the staff of the school's yearbook, The Oysterette, of which Pynchon was the editor.
Title: Thomas Pynchon, high school yearbook editor, 1953
Credit: * Original source: The Oysterette yearbook, 1953, published by Oyster Bay High School in Oyster Bay, New York. Immediate source: Reproduced on page 171 of Clifford Mead's 1989 book Thomas Pynchon: a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials, published by the Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN 0-916583-37-6. Scanned copy of the book accessed via the Internet Archive. Minor retouching by uploader—see upload history for unretouched original.
Author: Photo presumably taken by "Mr. DiLillo", who was identified as staff photographer of The Oysterette (Mead 1989, p. 170).
Permission: No permission is required because the photo is in the public domain. Without an original hard copy or full scan, it is impossible to determine whether The Oysterette was published with a valid copyright notice. However, even if it did carry a valid notice, the copyright was not renewed as required to extend the copyright term of US works published prior to 1964. See the online searchable Copyright Catalog (1978 to present). The 1953 edition of The Oysterette would have to have been renewed in its 27th or 28th year, either 1980 or 1981. It was not, so any copyright protection would have expired at that time.
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