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	This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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The photo could not have been taken after 1883. In 1883, taking this photo would have required specialized skill and expensive equipment and difficult setup, so the photographer must have been at least 15 (almost certainly older, but whatever), so born no later than 1868, so if alive in 1952 (70 years before 2022 when this image was uploaded) would have been 84... that's if she was 15 when she took the photo, more likely she was over 90. She might have been still alive in 1952. Not likely. And for every year after 2022 that you're reading this you must add a year to the photographer's life.

Anyway, doesn't matter, cos the photo was colorized, so given that laborious effort was almost certainly published, likely as a postcard, before 1927 when it would have been at least 44 years old. Anything's possible, but there's no reasonable cause to believe that the negative was in somebody's drawer for 44 years before it was published.