The first problem with the licensing for these images is that you say that they re public domain PD because you created the images As long as you did your best to make a faithful reproduction you have no copyright in these images either you ve simply copied a copyrighted image and don t have any right to release it or you ve copied a PD image and don t have any rights to control its usage By the way don t think that I m charging you with wrongdoing I m trying to say this in the simplest way possible and you have no rights is the way that the copyright law works it s not an assertion that you should get out of my way or anything like that Therefore there s no real evidence that we can use these images Are the original photos PD While most documents and photos created in the 1940s are copyrighted it s possible that they re PD such as if they were published without a copyright notice or if they were published with a copyright notice but their copyright was not renewed I m not an expert on these things therefore to get details you should ask a question at Wikipedia Media Copyright Questions or Commons Commons talk Licensing These pages are frequented by those much more familiar with copyright than I am so they should be able to help you