Postcard photo of television weatherman Harry Volkman on the WGN-TV news set.
Date
between circa 1979 and circa 1980
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1979-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1980-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
, based on the following: en:Harry Volkman began working in Chicago in 1959; the copy on the card back says he has been forecasting weather in Chicago for 20 years. The copy goes on to say that the WGN-TV evening news was broadcast at 10 PM. en:WGN-TV moved their evening news broadcast time from 10PM to 9 PM in 1980.
PD-1978-1989 with no marks or registration within 5 years.
The card has no copyright marks as can be seen in the original upload of its front and back.
A copyright search was done at copyright.gov for WGN-TV. The earliest registrations there are from 1981, for 2 copies of videocassettes of news broadcasts. The next listings are from 1996 and would not apply to this promotional postcard. There's no evidence copyright was ever claimed on this postcard.
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