This photograph originated in the personal photographs of Donald Cooksey and was published without copyright notice in The New World (1962), a publication of the United States government (see pages xiv, 32). Under United States copyright law in 1962, publication without notice placed the photograph in the public domain. Cooksey made no subsequent effort to copyright the image before its rights lapsed in 1968, and the volume containing the image is in the public domain.
The University of California has asserted continuing legal interests in the National Archives collection containing this digitized image. Digital reproduction of a public domain photograph does not create an additional copyright claim.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.