A search was done in original copyright registrations for the year 1923. International Newsreel filed only 2 registrations pertaining to a Japanese disaster; they are shown on page 242. There is nothing listed pertaining to the Holland Tunnel construction; there's no evidence of a copyright claim on this photo.
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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