Image: Frank Sinatra and Harry James at the Hollywood Canteen, 1943

Description: Publicity photo of Frank Sinatra (center) performing at the Hollywood Canteen for US servicemen during World War II, accompanied by Harry James (left, standing with sheet music) and his big band.
Title: Frank Sinatra and Harry James at the Hollywood Canteen, 1943
Credit: Original source: The image was originally distributed as a publicity photo by Columbia Broadcasting System (i.e., CBS. An extremely similar (but not identical) photo was published at page 4 of the November 1943 issue (Vol. 1, No. 8) of Tune In magazine, published by the D. S. Publishing Company at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York. Scans of the original publicity photo (front and back) can be seen at this WorthPoint listing. Cropped from the original image and retouched by uploader; see upload history for unretouched original.
Author: Photographer uncredited and unknown. Distributed by the photo department of CBS.
Permission: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1925 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
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