Image: Benny Goodman and Charlie Christian (1941-04 photo at Carl Fischer studio)

Description: Photograph of American jazz musicians Benny Goodman and Charlie Christian in Carl Fischer studio in New York, April 1941. The original caption in Metronome magazine read: "The late Charlie Christian looks over the shoulder of Benny Goodman, the man who brought him out of south-western obscurity."
Title: Benny Goodman and Charlie Christian (1941-04 photo at Carl Fischer studio)
Credit: *Original source: Published in the April 1942 issue of Metronome magazine, as can be seen in scans via WorthPoint. Instant source: Scan via the SoloFlight.cc photo gallery, listed as photo #76. Cropped and retouched by uploader; see upload history for unretouched original.
Author: Published by Metronome magazine. Likely photographed by Burt Goldblatt, based on a credit seen on a reprinted close-up print seen in the SoloFlight.cc photo gallery (photo #77).
Permission: This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1927 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 (50 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.
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License: Public domain
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