Five hundred and four pounds of unexploded dynamite and pyrotol found throughout the basement of the unwrecked portion of the Bath School (immediately after the building exploded on the morning of May 18, 1927). The dynamite and pyrotol were found by Michigan State Troopers Lieutenant Donald McNaughton & Ernest Halderman, Assistant Chief of the Michigan Secret Service Department of Public Safety Lieutenant Lyle W. Morse and Assistant Chief of the Lansing Fire Department Paul Lefke.
Date
on or after May 19, 1927
Source
The Bath School Disaster by MJ Ellsworth
Author
unknown photographer - it looks like there might be some type of label or credit in the bottom right hand corner of the photo but if writing is there it is unreadable/illegible
Copyright asserted (though apparently not registered with the US Copyright Office) in Ellsworth's 1927 edition/printing but not renewed in 1954/55/56.
Searches of the Stanford copyright renewal database at https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals for "Ellsworth", "Bath", "Bath School", "Bath School disaster", "National Editorial Association"/"Associated Press" (source of many of the newspaper photos), "Leavenworth Photographic Co., "Leavenworth", "Van/Van's/Van Photos" provided no renewal data. (Leavenworth Photos and Van's are two photography companies that took some of the extant photos of the disaster). Searches of the UPenn database at https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/ and of the various Copyright volumes also provided no pertinent search result
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This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs. 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 (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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Note: Even though the original uploader stated that the image's source was the freepages/bauerle URL above, the actual and original source was MJ Ellsworth's book, which was published in 1927 and predates the internet by several decades.
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