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Edison and most of his Orange laboratory staff – Vintage Print

Edison and most of his Orange laboratory staff, c1893. — historic photograph
Edison and most of his Orange laboratory staff, c1893.. 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 and most of his Orange laboratory staff comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Edison and most of his Orange laboratory staff

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Thomas Edison's West Orange (listed here as Orange) laboratory was the workplace where he and a team of machinists, chemists and assistants turned out a steady stream of inventions, and this group portrait gathers most of them in one frame. The image was made around 1893 by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, a British-born engineer who worked closely with Edison and was himself a pioneer of motion picture equipment. Dickson's photograph was later reproduced in *The Life and Inventions of Edison*, a book that helped shape the public image of Edison as a tireless inventor leading an organized research team.

Created / publishedc1893.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesCopyright by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (1860-1935), Orange, New Jersey. Published in: The Life and Inventions of Edison
SubjectsEdison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva),--1847-1931--Staff.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,115 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-169025

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