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Edison phonograph – Vintage Wall Art

Edison phonograph, 1912 — historic print
Edison phonograph, 1912. Historic print 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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Printed as a magazine advertisement in the January 13, 1912, issue of the *Saturday Evening Post* (page 36), this halftone shows the Edison phonograph at a time when the machine was a fixture of American parlors. Thomas Edison had patented the phonograph in 1878, and by the 1910s his company was promoting its cylinder machines to a mass audience through national magazines like the *Post*, which reached millions of middle-class readers each week. The halftone process, which broke a photograph into tiny dots that a press could reproduce, made images like this affordable to print in bulk, so the ad reflects both the product and the new printing technology of the period.

Created / published1912
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
GenreAdvertisements 1910-1920.Periodical illustrations 1910-1920.Halftone photomechanical prints 1910-1920.
NotesIllus. in: Saturday evening post, 1912 Jan. 13, p. 36.
SubjectsPhonographs--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,089 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-170777

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