Rare Posters and Photographs
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Edison Received a Congressional Gold Medal honoring his achievements, 1928
Secretary Of Treasury, Andrew Mellon, awarded Edison the Medal at a ceremony at his
workshop in West Orange.
(left to right) Ronald Campbell, British Charge d'Affaires, who was there to return the tinfoil
phonograph that Edison lent to the London Science Museum 45 years before; Andrew Mellon;
Mina Edison; Edison; and John Hibben, President of Princeton University. (Photo has copyright
stamp by Underwood and Underwood stamped on the back)
Edison in his Workshop with an Edison Business Phonograph
(Above photo has a copyright stamp by Pach Bros on the back)