Thomas A. Edison Papers
Location: Microfilm TK 140 E3 T45
Scope
This collection includes a selection of the many documents of Thomas A. Edison. It includes: patents; notebooks; accounts; litigation; scrapbooks; letters; legal documents; and financial records from 1850-1898. The original documents in this edition are from the archives at the Edison National Historic Site at West Orange, New Jersey.
How to search the collection
There is no subject index to this collection. There is a guide in three parts, A Guide to Thomas A. Edison Papers: a Selective Microfilm Edition, Part 1-3. (Microfilm TK 140 E3 T45). Part 1 covers 1850-1978; Part 2 covers 1879-1886; Part 3 covers 1887-1898. Each guide has a Table of Contents. They also have indexes to: what is on each reel; authors and recipients of correspondence; a chronological index to technical notes and drawings; and a chronological index to financial documents.
Guides
A Guide to Thomas A. Edison Papers: a Selective Microfilm Edition, Part 1-3. (Microfilm TK 140 E3 T45)
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Subject Categories:
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 -- Archives.
Electric engineering -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Electric lighting -- History -- Sources.
Time Period: 19th Century
Subject keywords: Science