DescriptionSanta Fe shop, Topeka Kansas painting cars.JPG
English: Photo postcard of the Santa Fe railroad's Topeka, Kansas shop where railroad cars are being painted.
Date
No date--the date could be anywhere from before 1900 to circa 1930s prior to streamlining of the trains. Will license as pre-1978 as it certainly was before that point.
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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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