Thomas Edison - Original Leslie R. Jones and 50 similar items

Original, Authentic Photo by Boston Herald-Traveler staff photographer Leslie R. Jones. Image depicts inventor Thomas Edison with two other unidentified gentlemen. Reverse side indicates it was taken at Mt. Prospect in Lancaster, New Hampshire and is dated 1921. Measures approximately 8 x 10 including white border. Condition: This is an original photograph, not a copy or reproduction. It is in very good condition with lengthwise bend near bottom of photo. Comments: Leslie Jones (1886-1967), was a Boston, Massachusetts photographer who worked for Boston Herald-Traveler newspaper for 39 years from 1917 to 1956. His photographs document both the usual and the unusual in the daily life of Boston. Born in 1886, Jones graduated from the Farm Trade School on Thompson Island. Although interested in photography from his school days, Jones first worked as a pattern-maker. He freelanced as a photographer for several years while working in a Boston factory, but after losing two fingers to the machinery he joined the Herald-Traveler staff full-time. In his 39 years at the newspaper, Jones covered everything from a fox stuck in a tree on the Boston Common, to Charles Lindbergh's United States tour after the aviator crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Jones died in 1967. A collection of almost 40,000 of his negatives is stored in the Boston Public Library. A digital library dedicated to the collection was independently developed.