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English: [Portrait of Tuskegee airman Edward M. Thomas, standing]
Description
English: Photograph shows Tuskegee airman Edward M. Thomas of Chicago, IL, Class 43-J. Ramitelli, Italy, March 1945. (Source: Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group pilots.)
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Other versions
Restored version of File:Tuskegee airman.jpg. Cropped. Dirt, stains, scratches, Scanner errors, and other problems resolved. Histogram adjusted. Restorationist's guess: the original emulsion was lacking enough fixative, so the original portrait was flaking away from the paper.
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This work is from the Toni Frissell collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work. Toni Frissell has released into the public domain all images for which the library holds the original negative:
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Images for which the Library holds original negative: Per the instrument of gift, Miss Frissell dedicated to the public the rights she held to original negatives in her collection, and she orally informed the Library that she held the rights to those images. This assertion is supported by Vogue Magazine, for which Miss Frissell was a staff photographer from 1933 to the late 1940s. They have informed the Library in writing that they claim no rights to images for which the Library holds the negatives. However, privacy and publicity rights may apply.
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Images for which they have the original negatives are those whose call number begins LC-F9-01-, LC-F9-34-, LC-F9-02-, LC-F9-39-, LC-F9-03-, LC-F9-53-, LC-F9-04-, LC-F9-54-, LC-F9-11-, LC-F9-56-, or LC-F9-30-.
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