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Summary

Description

Thomas A. Edison, the Electrician and Inventor. Bust portrait of Thomas A. Edison in an ornamental rectangular frame. The parted hair, face, moustache, bow tie, coat, surrounding hatching and all four decorative corners match the scrapbook. The complete portrait, frame and two-line caption Thomas A. Edison, the Electrician and Inventor are retained. A named artist, engraver or photographic source for this exact impression is not established here. The scrapbook’s handwritten F.T.S. addition is separate and remains unchanged on the album page.

From The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, vol. 66, no. 2, whole no. 470, February 1878, opening page of the issue. The complete native page directly prints the volume, month, year, issue number and whole number. No printed page folio is visible on this opening page; an unverified page number is not supplied.

The decorative masthead separately prepared for the scrapbook page uses a common graphic from the March 1878 issue, with its monthly line excluded. That separate masthead does not date this portrait: the present Edison witness is specifically February 1878. The first appearance in all editions and the physical copy used for the scrapbook cutting are not established.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky’s Scrapbooks, volume 7, page 31, item 3. Album images, captions, articles, handwriting, author parameters, notes, metadata, footnotes and prior sources remain unchanged.

Source

Internet Archive, Serials in Microfilm, identifier sim_phrenological-journal-and-science-of-health_1878-02_66_2, raw leaf 0. Native processed grayscale microfilm JP2, 2256 × 3376 pixels, downloaded as one observed archive member. No original camera file or natural paper colour is claimed.

• Complete matching opening page and exact issue.
• Complete native processed JP2 used for this crop.

Thank you to Internet Archive and its Serials in Microfilm contributors for preserving the issue and making the scans freely accessible.

File and processing

PNG, 1222 × 1487 pixels, grayscale (L); natural paper colour not established. Complete input: 2256 × 3376 pixels, 542751 bytes, SHA-256 c17bea1cfa65d9d801737ee12fc1056c77ba06bc387412a01ec9f5163ebff273.

Illustration crop (445, 965)–(1715, 2500) in the upright page. One bicubic alignment correction of 0.996904 degrees counterclockwise, measured from the robust bottom of the long printed picture-frame rule. Final trim (24, 24)–(1246, 1511); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. No added canvas is retained. The full composition, original frame or surrounding hatching, printed caption, signatures and meaningful marks remain. Original paper or grayscale values, show-through, marks, watermark where present, printing irregularities and scan artefacts are retained. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching, watermark removal or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the complete original access file remains unchanged.

Rights

Public-domain historical illustration published in the United States in 1878, reproduced in a faithful grayscale microfilm access scan. No separate Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark for this exact repository object has been verified, so none is assigned.