Image: Charlie Christian (1939-10 Waldorf-Astoria portrait)

Description: Photo portrait of American jazz guitarist Charlie Christian playing a Gibson ES-150 guitar at the Waldorf Astoria New York, October 1939. (Source of information: SoloFlight.cc photo gallery, photo #13).
Title: Charlie Christian (1939-10 Waldorf-Astoria portrait)
Credit: *Original source: The photo was originally published in the December 1, 1939, issue of DownBeat magazine (Vol. 6, No. 14) alongside "Guitarmen, Wake Up and Pluck!", an article written by Christian. A scan of the original page can be seen at WorthPoint in low resolution, or a higher-res scan of an exact reprint can be seen via Twitter. Instant source: Scan via PBS. Cropped (to match original dimensions as published in DownBeat) and retouched by uploader.
Author: Published by DownBeat magazine. Photographed by Charles B. Nadell (per this scan).
Permission: This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1928 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.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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