Thomas E. Robertson, Com. of Patents with old models, [6/19/25] – Vintage Photo Print
![Thomas E. Robertson, Com. of Patents with old models, [6/19/25], [1925 June 19] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1e/1eb68f8e576c-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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A window into the past: Thomas E. Robertson, Com. of Patents with old models, [6/19/25], preserved in this historic photograph. 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 E. Robertson, Com. of Patents with old models, [6/19/25]
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Commissioner of Patents Thomas E. Robertson poses among old patent models in this June 1925 view by the National Photo Company. The Patent Office once required inventors to submit working models with many applications, so its storerooms gradually filled with small machines and mechanisms from the nineteenth century. Photographs like this one capture that collection at a time when the old models were a visible part of the agency's past. Streaks and blemishes on the glass negative come from natural deterioration of its original coatings.
| Created / published | [1925 June 19] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from related neg. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp note: Batch six. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,954 × 4,272 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-256486 |
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