Waistup photograph of Thomas Alva Edison At the age of twelve young Edison was a newsboy and a candy butcher on the Grand Trunk Railroad running from...
{"Image ImageDescription": "(Original Caption) Waist-up photograph of Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). At the age of twelve, young Edison was a newsboy and a candy butcher on the Grand Trunk Railroad running from Port Huron to Detroit, Michigan. He maintained a chemical laboratory in the train's baggage car which also housed a printing press on which the young Edison ran off editions of The Weekly Herald, the first newspaper ever. Undated photograph, circa 1860."}