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Originally Posted by Redrob
I don't want to rain on your parade; but, just because you bought them from an estate doesn't mean that you were given reproduction rights. The photographer retains the rights unless he/she signed them away.
Before you reproduce the images, be sure you have the rights. I have seen many lawsuits over unauthorized reproductions of images.
This is the link to a page that tells when works pass into public domain. You should check it out:
http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
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no worries Redrob, you aren't.. I went over that page way before I even started using these.. there are no copywrite notices on any of it but the early photographs that are before 1923