File:Southern Pacific Daylight circa 1937.JPG

Southern_Pacific_Daylight_circa_1937.JPG(710 × 429 pixels, file size: 72 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary edit

Description Postcard photo of the Southern Pacific Railroad's "Daylight" which traveled between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Date The card was not mailed and there is no dating on it. The information on its front says that this is a new train. The Daylight went into service in 1937, so this is circa 1937.
Source

eBay item card front

card back
Author No producer is shown on the card, but from the text on the front, this surely was issued by the Southern Pacific Railroad to promote their new train. The only mark is "EKC" in the stamp box.
  • The card has no copyright markings on it as can be seen in the links above.
  • United States Copyright Office page 2 "Visually Perceptible Copies The notice for visually perceptible copies should contain all three elements described below. They should appear together or in close proximity on the copies.
1 The symbol © (letter C in a circle); the word “Copyright”; or the abbreviation “Copr.”
2 The year of first publication. If the work is a derivative work or a compilation incorporating previously published material, the year date of first publication of the derivative work or compilation is sufficient. Examples of derivative works are translations or dramatizations; an example of a compilation is an anthology. The year may be omitted when a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, with accompanying textual matter, if any, is reproduced in or on greeting cards, postcards, stationery, jewelry, dolls, toys, or useful articles.
3 The name of the copyright owner, an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of owner.1 Example © 2007 Jane Doe.")

Licensing edit

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.

العربية  беларуская (тарашкевіца)  čeština  Deutsch  Ελληνικά  English  español  français  Bahasa Indonesia  italiano  日本語  한국어  македонски  Nederlands  português  русский  sicilianu  slovenščina  ไทย  Tiếng Việt  中文(简体)  中文(繁體)  +/−

Flag of the United States
Flag of the United States

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current17:51, 22 September 2012Thumbnail for version as of 17:51, 22 September 2012710 × 429 (72 KB)Renamed user 995577823Xyn (talk | contribs)better tone
01:44, 1 March 2012Thumbnail for version as of 01:44, 1 March 2012710 × 429 (66 KB)Renamed user 995577823Xyn (talk | contribs)Card has been cropped and auto corrected. Previous upload was to help with dating, and show there are no copyright marks on it.
01:42, 1 March 2012Thumbnail for version as of 01:42, 1 March 2012800 × 1,200 (83 KB)Renamed user 995577823Xyn (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=Postcard photo of the Southern Pacific Railroad's "Daylight" which traveled between San Francisco and Los Angeles. |Source=[http://www.ebay.com/itm/DAYLIGHT-SOUTHERN-PACIFIC-STEAM-SMOKE-CALIFORNIA-/260967667990?pt=LH_DefaultD...

There are no pages that use this file.