Alexander Graham Bell At The Unveiling Of A Plaque Commemorating The 1876 Invention Of The Telephone, Boston, Mass. Photo by Richard W. Sears – Historic Photograph 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Alexander Graham Bell At The Unveiling Of A Plaque Commemorating The 1876 Invention Of The Telephone, Boston, Mass. Photo by Richard W. Sears. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Alexander Graham Bell At The Unveiling Of A Plaque Commemorating The 1876 Invention Of The Telephone, Boston, Mass. Photo by Richard W. Sears
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Alexander Graham Bell is the figure at the center of this 1916 photograph, taken at Boston during the unveiling of a plaque marking the 1876 invention of the telephone. Bell, a Scottish-born inventor who had settled in the United States, received the first telephone patent in 1876 and spent much of his later life in the Boston area. Richard W. Sears made the image, and it survives in the Library of Congress as part of the Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Bell family photographs, which makes it a useful record of how the inventor was honored while still living.
| Created / published | c. 1916 |
|---|---|
| Medium | photographic print |
| Notes | Forms part of Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family, Library of Congress |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 1,702 × 1,362 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-193782 |
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