DescriptionUS military issued train ticket, Rockford to Chicago, December 1957.jpg
US military issued train ticket between Rockford and Chicago dated December 1957, evidence/ court exhibit in People v. McCullough murder trial, for use on the article w:Murder of Maria Ridulph
Date
(train ticket)/ Unknown, c. 2012 (photo)
Source
Self-scanned
Author
Illinois Central Railroad Company (ticket) / Unknown (photo)
The train ticket is in the public domain in US because it was published between 1923 and 1977 without a copyright notice. The image of the train ticket is ineligible for copyright protection in US because it contains no original creative authorship and is just an image of the original ticket.
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.