English: Part of the photoessay Boat of No Smiles, about a group of Vietnamese boat people seeking refuge.
As captioned in The Desert Sun: "This Vietnamese woman uses a blanket to shelter herself and her child from the hot sun in the Gulf of Siam."
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. 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.
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