Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931 – Vintage Wall Art
(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. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931
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Thomas Alva Edison appears in this portrait, dated to about 1880, at a point when his reputation was rising quickly. By then he had set up his research laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, and had drawn wide attention for the phonograph of 1877 and the carbon-filament incandescent lamp he demonstrated in late 1879. Portraits like this helped shape the public image of the inventor as a determined self-made worker, a figure newspapers praised as much for persistence as for any single device. The date comes from a caption card and has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | c1880. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,036 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151396 |
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