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Crop of page 101 of the 1980 Pitt student yearbook, The Owl. This work was originally published in the United States between 1978 and March 1, 1989 without a copyright mark or notice, and its copyright was not subsequently registered with the U.S. Copyright Office within 5 years.
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This yearbook was not published with a copyright notice or mark and the copyright was not registered within five years so it is therefore in the public domain.
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