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File:Louis Armstrong restored.jpg

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English: Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpeter
Français : Le trompetiste et chanteur de jazz Louis Armstrong.
Italiano: Il trombettista e jazzista Louis Armstrong nel 1953
Türkçe: 20. yüzyılın en önemli müzisyenlerinden Louis Armstrong trompet çalarken (1953).
Date 1953
Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.
US-LibraryOfCongress-BookLogo.svg This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c27236.
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Author World-Telegram staff photographer
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"No copyright restriction known. Staff photographer reproduction rights transferred to Library of Congress through Instrument of Gift." See also http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html

Public domain This photograph is a work for hire created prior to 1968 by a staff photographer at New York World-Telegram & Sun. It is part of a collection donated to the Library of Congress. Per the deed of gift, New York World-Telegram & Sun dedicated to the public all rights it held for the photographs in this collection upon its donation to the Library. Thus, there are no known restrictions on the usage of this photograph.

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