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[Thomas Alva Edison, full-length portrait, standing, with judges' committee to select his successor: Lewis Perry, George Eastman, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford & Samuel Stratton] – Historic Photograph Print

[Thomas Alva Edison, full-length portrait, standing, with judges' committee to select his successor: Lewis Perry, George Eastman, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford & Samuel Stratton] — historic photograph
[Thomas Alva Edison, full-length portrait, standing, with judges' committee to select his successor: Lewis Perry, George Eastman, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford & Samuel Stratton]. 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 stands at the center of this portrait with a committee of judges charged with choosing his successor, including George Eastman of Kodak, aviator Charles Lindbergh, automaker Henry Ford, and Samuel Stratton, who directed the National Bureau of Standards. The caption card gives no date, but the lineup suggests the later part of Edison's career, when these men were among the most recognized names in American industry and invention. The picture shows how the country's leading inventors and industrialists saw one another, and it raises the question of who might carry on Edison's work.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,202 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122987

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