Thomas A. Edison's birthplace, Milan, Ohio – Historic 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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This historic photograph of Thomas A. Edison's birthplace, Milan, Ohio brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Thomas A. Edison's birthplace, Milan, Ohio
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Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, and this c1947 photograph shows the house where he came into the world, a centennial-era view of a modest frame dwelling on the town's streets. The record notes the subject as Edison's birthplace in Milan, a small Erie County village that was then a canal and grain-shipping community on the Huron River. The house became a point of local pride in the decades after Edison's fame as an inventor of the phonograph and the practical incandescent lamp, and photographs like this one documented it as a landmark tied to his early life. Caution is warranted, since the caption card data is unverified, but the image preserves how the site looked roughly a century after his birth.
| Created / published | c1947. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ohio--Milan; BI--Birthplace; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,146 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151408 |
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