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[Thomas Alva Edison, half-length portrait, seated, facing left] – Vintage Wall Art

[Thomas Alva Edison, half-length portrait, seated, facing left], c1922. — historic photograph
[Thomas Alva Edison, half-length portrait, seated, facing left], c1922.. 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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Thomas Alva Edison sits in this half-length portrait turned to the left, a pose typical of the studio portraiture of the early 1920s, when he was already one of the most famous men in America. The print carries a copyright notation for Bachrach, the Baltimore studio that made many of the formal portraits of prominent figures of the era. Edison, who held more than a thousand patents, was by then in his mid-seventies and widely regarded as the embodiment of the American inventor, so portraits like this one helped shape the public image of a self-taught tinkerer turned industrial celebrity.

Created / publishedc1922.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesJ252121 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Bachrach.
SubjectsEdison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva),--1847-1931.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,303 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-186783

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