DescriptionRon Howard Bob Smith Howdy Doody Happy Days 1975.JPG
Photo of Bob Smith (Buffalo Bob), Ron Howard (Richie Cunningham) and Howdy Doody from the television program Happy Days. This episode has the Howdy Doody show coming to Milwaukee, where Richie enters a contest for the person who looks most like Howdy Doody.
Most of the ABC logo has been torn or cut from the photo's back. Some of their New York Avenue of the Americas address can be seen and one of the newspaper clippings where this photo was printed credits ABC with this photo.
As per an earlier discussion re: the AP upload information, the opinion was this does not affect its PD-pre 1978 status because it was published without any copyright markings during the applicable timeframe.
The photo has no copyright markings on it as can be seen in the links above.
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