The The Atlanta Constitution photo does not indicate who took it, but it appears to be the same as this AP Photo, in the Minneapolis Tribune. Checking Works of Art for 1932 for Associated Press, there are 2 hits (and an index notification). Neither of them have anything to do with Demme. A search of copyright.gov search shows no hits for Demme as a title, keyword or name. Appears that the first publication of this photo was on 9 September 1932 in the Minneapolis Tribune. Nothing in that paper indicates the photograph or the newspaper was copyrighted.Masthead/Publication Info.
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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