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Title: Thomas A. Edison at White House
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1878
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Inventor Thomas A. Edison shown demonstrating his first phonograph on April 18, 1878, at the White House. Here he is waiting to show the President.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044681
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 861
CARL0000048177
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14237
Subject: Edison, Thomas A.--(Thomas Alva),--1847-1931
Inventors--United States
Phonographs
Washington (D.C.)
Portrait photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1871-1880

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