Daguerreotype of Thomas Edison as a Child, 1851
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Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847, to former schoolteacher Nancy Elliot Edison and Samuel Edison, Jr., who ran a shingle mill and grain business in Milan, Ohio. He was the couple's seventh and last child (three older siblings died in early childhood). This daguerreotype, taken around age four, is the first known portrait of the future inventor.
Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847, to former schoolteacher Nancy Elliot Edison and Samuel Edison, Jr., who ran a shingle mill and grain business in Milan, Ohio. He was the couple's seventh and last child (three older siblings died in early childhood). This daguerreotype, taken around age four, is the first known portrait of the future inventor.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1851
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On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.188.13016.B
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 10 in
Width: 8.25 in
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