Library of Congress - Photos from 1939-1945
I’ve been browsing the photo collections in the Library of Congress. One of their latest collections is photographs of ‘America from the Great Depression to World War II’. Unlike in the UK, which has Crown Copyright, works by the United States Goverment do not have copyright. No copyright permission is needed to use the photos in this collection, as the photographers were in the employ of the US Government. Publicity and privacy rights, however, could apply. As a practical matter, in the US any of these that do not feature any people, and those where the people in the picture are not identifiable (generally, can’t see their face), can be reproduced freely. Below are a few I thought interesting.
Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI
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