Thomas E. Robertson, Com. of Patents with old models, 6/19/25 – Historic Photograph Print
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(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 E. Robertson, Com. of Patents with old models, 6/19/25, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Thomas E. Robertson, Com. of Patents with old models, 6/19/25
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Commissioner of Patents Thomas E. Robertson stands among a crowd of old patent models, the small working replicas that inventors once submitted with their applications. The picture dates to June 19, 1925, and was made by the National Photo Company, a Washington, D.C., studio known for press photographs of government officials and public events. Such models filled the Patent Office's storage for decades, so the scene records both an official and a collection that was then being sorted and reconsidered. Faint streaks and blemishes on the glass negative are typical of the deterioration that affects early photographic coatings.
| Created / published | [19]25 June 19. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp note: Batch six. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,949 × 4,255 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-256488 |
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