English: Nintendo's main office back in the mid-to-late 1930s.
Based on the fact that the catalogue states that Nintendo had an office in Korea at the time (back when it was part of Japan) this must be PD in US, since it was published before 1946
This was created prior to World War II, since Nintendo had an office in Japan-occupied Korea at the time, and it was made by Nintendo (not a human author). So it is PD in both Japan and US. However Erik Voskuil claims that he copyrights all images in beforemario blog.
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Nintendo's main office back in the mid-to-late 1930s.
Uploaded a work by Nintendo from Nintendo cards catalogue from mid-1930s at http://blog.beforemario.com/2019/09/nintendo-cards-catalogue-from-mid-1930s.html (the catalogue was made before the end of World War II because it lists an office in Keijo (now Seoul)) with UploadWizard