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Summary

Description Thomas Edison and his early phonograph. Cropped from Library of Congress copy.
Date circa 1877
date QS:P,+1877-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(probably 18 April 1878, based on the extremely similar photo [1] )
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cwpbh.04044 .
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Author Levin C. Handy (per http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.04326 )
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