Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931
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Thomas Alva Edison is the subject here, shown in a portrait photoprint made around 1913, when he was in his mid-sixties and already one of the most recognized inventors in the country. The print carries a copyright notice in Edison's own name, a reminder of how closely he guarded the image of himself and his laboratory work during this period. Edison's career spanned the phonograph, the incandescent lamp and the motion picture camera, and by the 1910s he was a public figure whose likeness appeared widely in newspapers and magazines. The record notes that some details come from an unverified caption card, so the exact circumstances of the sitting are not confirmed.
| Created / published | c1913. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by Thomas A. Edison. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,256 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151572 |
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