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[Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, three-quarter length portrait, standing, in laboratory] – Vintage Photo Print

[Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, three-quarter length portrait, standing, in laboratory], c1904. — historic photograph
[Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, three-quarter length portrait, standing, in laboratory], c1904.. 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, three-quarter length portrait, standing, in laboratory], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Thomas Alva Edison stands here at three-quarter length inside a laboratory, a setting that reflects how he presented himself to the public in the early twentieth century: as a working inventor rather than a distant celebrity. The portrait is dated to about 1904, a period when Edison's companies were deeply involved in electric lighting, motion pictures and sound recording. The print carries a copyright credit to Pach, most likely the Pach Brothers, a well-known New York studio that photographed many prominent figures of the era. The record notes that its caption information is unverified and drawn from an old card, so the exact circumstances of the sitting remain uncertain.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Pach. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,287 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119488

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