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[Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in garden, cactus in background] – Historic Photograph Print

[Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in garden, cactus in background] — historic photograph
[Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in garden, cactus in background]. Historic photograph from the Work & Industry collection.

(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 Alva Edison, 1847-1931, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in garden, cactus in background], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Here Thomas Edison stands full length in a garden, turned to the left, with a cactus rising behind him, a more relaxed setting than the laboratory benches and workshops usually associated with his name. The print dates from about 1931, the year Edison died at his home in West Orange, New Jersey, at age 84. By then he was among the most famous inventors in the world, credited with the practical incandescent lamp, the phonograph, and a large body of work on motion pictures and industrial research. The photograph is worth a closer look for how it presents the aging inventor as a private figure at home rather than a man at his machines.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1931.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,212 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122957

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