[Thomas Alva Edison, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left, with family group] – Historic Photograph Print
![[Thomas Alva Edison, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left, with family group], c1920 March 9. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/55/552d88444dae-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with [Thomas Alva Edison, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left, with family group], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Thomas Alva Edison, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left, with family group]
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Thomas Alva Edison appears here in a three-quarter-length standing pose, turned to the left and posed among his family, a rarer subject than the inventor alone at his workbench. The record dates the print to around March 9, 1920, and the copyright notation credits Thomas A. Edison, Inc., the company that handled his patents, recordings and publicity. By then Edison was in his seventies and already a national celebrity, known for the incandescent lamp, the phonograph and the motion picture camera. Portraits like this one were part of how his public image was built, presenting the famous inventor as a family man as well.
| Created / published | c1920 March 9. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1920.Group portraits 1920.Photographic prints 1920. |
| Notes | J239959 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by T.A.E. Inc. |
| Subjects | Edison, Thomas Alva,--1847-1931--Family. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,301 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-200380 |
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