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Edison's home, Menlo Park, New Jersey / from a sketch by Theo. R. Davis. – Antique Print

Edison's home, Menlo Park, New Jersey / from a sketch by Theo. R. Davis., 1880 — antique engraving
Edison's home, Menlo Park, New Jersey / from a sketch by Theo. R. Davis., 1880. Antique engraving 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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Few American inventors were as closely tied to one place as Thomas Edison was to Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he set up his laboratory in 1876. This wood engraving shows his home there, drawn from a sketch by the illustrator Theodore R. Davis and published in *Harper's Weekly* on January 3, 1880. That was a busy stretch for Edison, who had recently developed his practical incandescent lamp, and the magazine's interest reflected how widely the press followed his work. The view offers a glimpse of the domestic side of a site better known for its workshops and the experiments that made the name "Menlo Park" famous.

Created / published1880
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
GenreWood engravings 1880.
NotesIllus. in: Harper's weekly, 1880 Jan. 3, p. 5.
SubjectsEdison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva),--1847-1931--Homes & haunts--New Jersey--Menlo Park. Dwellings--New Jersey--Menlo Park--1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,234 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-184798

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