Mrs. T.A. Edison – Vintage Print
(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: Mrs. T.A. Edison, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Mrs. T.A. Edison
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Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, born Mina Miller, was the second wife of the inventor, whom she married in 1886 and who died in 1931. This glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs made by the Bain News Service in New York, which supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, and the title is taken from caption cards that the service's own data may not have verified, so the sitter's identity is worth reading with that caveat in mind. Portraits of Edison's family were often circulated to the press as his public profile grew, which gives this image its value as a record of how the household was presented to the public.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,346 × 4,890 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-21821 |
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