[Mr. Thomas A. Edison standing next to flag presented to him for the forty-third anniversary of the Ediphone invention by Ediphone Distributors] – Antique Wall Art
![[Mr. Thomas A. Edison standing next to flag presented to him for the forty-third anniversary of the Ediphone invention by Ediphone Distributors], c1920. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f2/f20688b268ca-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with [Mr. Thomas A. Edison standing next to flag presented to him for the forty-third anniversary of the Ediphone invention by Ediphone Distributors], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Mr. Thomas A. Edison standing next to flag presented to him for the forty-third anniversary of the Ediphone invention by Ediphone Distributors]
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Edison stands beside a flag presented by Ediphone distributors to mark forty-three years since the invention behind the Ediphone, a dictating machine that grew out of his phonograph work of the late 1870s. The occasion honored one of his more practical inventions, which let office workers record letters and memos on wax cylinders instead of taking shorthand. Taken around 1920, the portrait shows Edison in his seventies, by then a celebrated figure whose laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, had produced more than a thousand patents.
| Created / published | c1920. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic. print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1920.Photographic. prints 1920. |
| Notes | J243278 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Thomas Alva Edison. |
| Subjects | Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva),--1847-1931. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,104 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-169026 |
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