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Thomas Edison and his early phonograph. Cropped from Library of Congress copy.

Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.04044

circa 1877 (probably 18 April 1878, based on the extremely similar photo [1])

Levin C. Handy (per http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.04326)

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