Image: Thomas Pynchon, high school senior portrait, 1953

Description: High school senior of American author Thomas Pynchon, age 16, from the 1953 Oyster Bay High School yearbook.
Title: Thomas Pynchon, high school senior portrait, 1953
Credit: * Original source: The Oysterette yearbook, 1953, published by Oyster Bay High School in Oyster Bay, New York. Immediate source: Reproduced on page 176 of Clifford Mead's 1989 book Thomas Pynchon: a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials, published by the Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN 0-916583-37-6. Scanned copy of the book accessed via the Internet Archive. Minor retouching by uploader.
Author: Photographer unknown, presumably an anonymous work-for-hire on behalf of Oyster Bay High School.
Permission: No permission is required because the photo is in the public domain. Without an original hard copy or full scan, it is impossible to determine whether The Oysterette was published with a valid copyright notice. However, even if it did carry a valid notice, the copyright was not renewed as required to extend the copyright term of US works published prior to 1964. See the online searchable Copyright Catalog (1978 to present). The 1953 edition of The Oysterette would have to have been renewed in its 27th or 28th year, either 1980 or 1981. It was not, so any copyright protection would have expired at that time.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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