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[Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, left profile, seated at his desk, writing] – Antique Wall Art

[Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, left profile, seated at his desk, writing], c1905. — historic photograph
[Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, left profile, seated at his desk, writing], c1905.. 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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Edison appears here in left profile, seated at his desk and writing, a quieter view than the studio portraits and laboratory scenes that usually represent him. The caption card dates the photograph to about 1905, when Edison was in his late fifties and running a sprawling network of companies from his West Orange, New Jersey, laboratory complex. The print was copyrighted by Irving Underhill, a New York photographer who made a number of portraits of public figures in that period. Edison's habit of constant note-taking and correspondence is worth keeping in mind when looking at it, since the desk itself was where much of his work was planned and recorded.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Irving Underhill, New York. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,251 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123782

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