Young Edison rescuing a child [from front of train at Mt. Clemens Mich. depot] – Vintage Wall Art
![Young Edison rescuing a child [from front of train at Mt. Clemens Mich. depot], [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5f/5f38a8be64f0-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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A window into the past: Young Edison rescuing a child [from front of train at Mt. Clemens Mich. depot], preserved in this antique engraving. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Young Edison rescuing a child [from front of train at Mt. Clemens Mich. depot]
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Young Thomas Edison, shown here pulling a small child from the path of a moving train, is set at the depot in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Popular accounts of Edison's life place the rescue around 1859, when he was a teenager working as a telegraph operator, and say the child's grateful father later taught him telegraphy. The picture is a wood engraving printed as an illustration in a book about Edison, so it reflects how nineteenth-century readers imagined the scene rather than a camera's record of it. Railroad danger and the hero-inventor legend both appear in its composition.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Edison, p. 50. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Rescues; Railroads--Accidents; Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,280 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141893 |
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