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[Thomas Alva Edison, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, hands folded] – Vintage Photo Print

[Thomas Alva Edison, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, hands folded], 1922 — historic photograph
[Thomas Alva Edison, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, hands folded], 1922. 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, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, hands folded], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Thomas Alva Edison, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, hands folded]

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Thomas Alva Edison sits in this 1922 portrait three-quarters length, angled to the left with his hands folded, a posture that suggests a man at rest rather than at work at his bench. By then he was in his mid-seventies and widely known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park," the inventor whose phonograph, practical incandescent lamp and central power stations had reshaped daily life. The formal pose reflects how public figures of the period were usually presented: composed, dignified and deliberately unhurried. Portraits like this one helped build the image of Edison as an elder statesman of American invention.

Created / published1922
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
SubjectsEdison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva),--1847-1931.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,141 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163482

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