Professor T. A. Edison and his Speaking Phonograph

Artist Mathew B. Brady (American, 1823 - 1896)

Date1878

MediumAlbumen cabinet card

DimensionsImage: 5 1/2 x 4 inches (13.97 x 10.16 cm)
Framed: 25 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (64.14 x 53.98 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.274

InscribedTitled [title] Front of Mount Imprinted Copyright Front of Mount

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DescriptionImage of a man (Thomas Edison) sitting beside a table with a speaking phonograph - a metal cylinder with a rotating handle on the right end.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Developing Greatness: The Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 – December 30, 2007, no. 412.

Published References

Keith F. Davis, The Origins of American Photography: from Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885. With contributions by Jane L. Aspinwall. Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation: in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007. Distributed by Yale University Press. Published in conjunction with Developing Greatness: the Origins of American Photography, 1839-1885, shown at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 246 (repro), 346.

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