Image: Tom Waits (1968 yearbook senior portrait)

Description: Senior portrait of American musician Tom Waits as a student at Hilltop High School in Chula Vista, California. Though he reached his senior year, he ultimately dropped out without receiving a diploma in 1968 at the age of 18. (Source: page 34 of Hoskyns, Barney (2009). Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0571235537.)
Title: Tom Waits (1968 yearbook senior portrait)
Credit: *Original source: Idyl '68, the 1968 Hilltop High School yearbook, Vol. IX, p. 130. Instant source: A scan of the yearbook is available through AncestryLibrary.com. Cropped from the full-page scan and retouched by uploader.
Author: Published by the Associated Student Body of Hilltop High School. The photograph itself is an anonymous work-for-hire on behalf of the school.
Permission: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1927 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.
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