[Thomas Edison, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right, writing in his laboratory] – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Thomas Edison, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right, writing in his laboratory], [between 1910 and 1930] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/08/083dd0ce3e4e-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures [Thomas Edison, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right, writing in his laboratory] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Thomas Edison, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right, writing in his laboratory]
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Thomas Edison appears here at three-quarter length, standing and turned to the right as he writes, a pose that puts the working inventor rather than the public celebrity in front of the lens. The record places him in his laboratory, which is the detail that sets this portrait apart from the more formal studio sittings of the period. Taken sometime between 1910 and 1930, when Edison was already famous for the phonograph and the incandescent lamp, it shows a man who kept at his notebooks and bench work well into his later years. The image is a useful reminder that much of Edison's reputation rested on steady, documented experimentation rather than on single flashes of genius.
| Created / published | [between 1910 and 1930] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic. print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1910-1930.Photographic. prints 1910-1930. |
| Subjects | Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva),--1847-1931. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,111 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-169022 |
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