Photo of Carole Lombard published by the New York Sunday News shortly after her death. There's a typo in seller's description of February 8, 1944; this is February 8, 1942. Date can be seen in upper right corner of the uncropped page. The photo was taken at Lombard's home prior to her marriage to Clark Gable in 1939.
A search for renewals was done in periodicals for the years 1966 and 1967. There were no renewals for New York News, New York Daily News, or New York Sunday News. There's no evidence that copyright continues to be claimed on this material.
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 (70 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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