THOMAS A. I DISOV CENTENNIAL COMMISSION 1974 Lincoln Highway, P.O. Box 281 Edison, NJ. 08817 THOMAS A. EDISON CENTENNIAL COMMISSIOX 1974 Lincoln Highway, P.O. Box 281 Edison, NJ. 08817 E O lS O t J • catfrEfJtJiflL to'son twp.
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WHEREAS October 21, 1979, will mark the one hundredth
anniversary of the invention by Thomas A. Edison of the first
practical incandescent electric lamp; and
WHEREAS the ceireer of Thomas A. Edison has enhanced the
lives of United States citizens and of millions of people through
out the world by his many inventions, including the phonograph,
the motion picture camera, the "universal" stock ticker, the
storage battery, the magnetic ore separator, the fluorescent lamp,
and the miner's lamp;and
WHEREAS many of the power and communications capabilities
existing today are a reflection of the work and dedication of
Thomas A. Edison; and
WHEREAS, the genius of Thomas A. Edison has helped develop
the modern technological era enjoyed by the world today;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT AND IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED by the
Municipal Council of the Township of Edison ,
1. That the Mayor of the Township of Edison is authorized ar
requested to issue a proclamation designating the year 1979 as
"Thomas A. Edison Centennial Year" in recognition of the complet.ic by Thomas A. Edison of his invention of the first practical in
candescent electric lamp on October 21 , 1 8 79.
2. There be established a commission which shall be designated as the "Thomas A. Edison Centennial Commission";
3. The functions of the Commission shall be to prepare a program to observe the Thomas A. Edison Centennial Year and to plan encourage, develop, and coordinate observances and activities
in connection with such program; to consider, in preparing its
program, any plans or programs developed by State or local publi
agencies or private organizations, in connection with the
Thomas A. Edison Centennial Year, and to consult with represent
atives from such agencies or organizations to coordinate such
plans or programs; to initiate the development of publications,
documentary and bibliographic projects, conferences, seminars,
and public programs in connection with the Thomas A. Edison
Centennial Year, and to encourage and coordinate similar
activities by State and local public agencies and private
organizations, and, to encourage efforts to preserve and develop
historic sites.
4. The Commission shall be composed of fifteen (15) member who shall be appointed by the Mayor.
5. The Commission shall cease to exist on January 31, 19BO
Township Clerk 1. A drawing of the Menlo Park site showing all the buildings.
2. Factory and workers at Menlo Park.
3. A factory at the Menlo Park Site.
4. Another factory at the Menlo Park Site
5. Edison Electric Railway of 1880 at Menlo Park.
6. Men in factory at Menlo Park.
7. Electrician's room in Edison's Laboratory at Menlo Park.
8. Drawing of original bulb taken from Edison's Journal.
9. Original Bulb.
10. Thomas Edison holding bulb.
11. Mechanism (batteries, etc.) Edison used in his laboratory to make lights work. 12. The first movie projector.
13. Thomas Alva Edison as a boy.
14. Thomas Alva Edison as a young man.
15. Thomas Alva Edison as an older man.
16. Edison National Historic Site at West Orange, New Jersey.
17. In Edison's home you can see his desk which was opened in 1952.
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cardboard The "Black Maria" - first motion picture studio mounted & y TA 60 Photo Unknown which revolved on a track 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated
cardboard The Electrical Vote Recorder - Edisi jn's First mounted & y TA 61 Photo Unknown Patented Invention, October 11, If 168 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cardboard mounted & y TA 62 Photo Unknown Interior of Edison Library at West C range, NJ 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Edison Digitalization - 2
cardboard The First Phonograph, Invented by Edison August mounted & J TA 63 Photo Unknown 12, 1877 1 single 9.5x14 unknown laminated
Assistants of Thomas Edison take experimental / TA 64 Photo Unknown electric train for a run - Menlo Park NJ 1 single 8.5 x 11 unknown Laminated cardboard The "Mary Ann" Dynamo Invented by Edison and mounted & v/ TA 65 Photo Unknown Used in His Pearl Street Station 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Close-up of the Commemorative Plaque from Raritan Twp on the 100th Anniversary of Edison's / TA 66 Photo Unknown Birth 1 single 8.5x11 unknown laminated M p f P J . cardboard & X.l5c.! J * 9 $ Thomas Edison at 14 - when he was a newsboy on V TA 68 Photo f\jk , / Unknown the Grand Trunk Railway 1 single 8.5x11 unknown laminated Thomas Edison Demonstarting his Tin-Foil Phonograph in Washington DC, April 1878. Photo s/ TA 69 Photo Unknowt f l° y by Matthew Brady. 1 single 8.5 x 11 unknown laminated J TA 70 Photo Unknown Portrait of Thomas Edison 1 single 8.5x11 1877 laminated ✓ TA 71 Photo Unknown Edison in his West Orange Laboratory, 1890 1 single 8.5x11 1890 laminated ✓ TA 72 Photo Unknown Edison After Five Days Spent Developing the 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown cardboard TA 73 Photo ^ 0 * Unknown Edison in His West Orange Machine Shop, 1892 1 single 8.5x11 1892 laminated Edison Sitting in Chair in front of the officeof his ore-milling plant, The New Jersey and k**N'D(£fc? ✓ TA 74 Photo L, Unknown Pennsylvania Concentrating Works, Edison, NJ 1 single 8.5 x 11 1895 laminated Pc cardboard y TA 75 Photo Unknown 7 7? Edison in His Chemistry Lab at West Orange. 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown mounted & cardboard © t a . e . mounted & t/ TA 76 Photo Unknown Edison at the Telegraph Key. 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Edison Re-enacts the Invention of His Incandescent cardboard Lamp as Henry Ford and Francis Jehl (his lab mounted & / TA 77 Photo Unknown assistant at Menlo Park) Look on - at The Light's 1 single 9.5 x 14 1929 laminated Edison Digitalization - 3 LUI3UI 1 Willi Ldouiiai! O 1 Mill vVIiiLii IIC U5CU M 1 caiuuuaiu------His Motion Picture Camera Invented in 1889 and mounted & TA 78 Photo Unknown Pateneted July 31,1891. 1 single 9.5x14 unknown laminated f '- Edison with the Miner's Safety Lamp Which He cardboard Z - u e V e ^ Invented in 1914 at the Request of the U.S. Bureau mounted & TA 79 Photo Unknown of Mines 1 single 9.5x14 unknown laminated cardboard Edison With A Model of the First Typewriter in mounted & TA 80 Photo Unknown 1871 1 single 9.5x14 unknown laminated TA 81 Photo Edison with Nickel from Alkaline Storage Battery Edison in his Chemical Lab in 1906. This Bldg is TA 82 Photo now part of the Edison National Historic Site i v e) i A c ^ ^ L - u e Edison Digitalization -1 0&\& U 5 f # Single/Doubl Year Scanned on TA or ET Type of Item Publication Name or Publisher Name of Item Pgs e Sides Size Published Comment CD TA 1 Newspaper News Tribune News Tribune - A Century of Light (special edition) 12 double 12x14 1979 yellowed, folded O ^ TA 2 Newspaper article Unknown "Neighbor Thomas Edison: a Quiet Man of Action" 1 single 12x9.5 1990 laminated TA 3 Magazine article New Jersey Living "Wizard of Menlo Park" 4 single 8.5x11 1986 laminated * K> / cdc'YzAci- TA 4 Newspaper article Home News "The Day the ’Wizard1 Died" 2 single 5x13.5 1981 laminated ^ 4 TA 5 Newspaper article New York Post "Thomas Edison's Power Play" 1 single 10.5x6.5 1979 laminated TA 6 Magazine article Unknown "The Edisons of West Orange" 3 single 8.5x11 1985 laminated The Signal Fire - Newsletter - Middlesex County Cultural and o ^ TA 7 Newsletter Heritage Commission Special Edition - "The Wizard of Menlo Park" 4 double 8.5x11 1986 laminated TA 8 Newspaper article Home News "An Anniversary Overlooked" 1 single 23x14 1969 laminated "Opening of Edison's Desk, Sealed 15 Years, Starts 9 ^ TA 9 Newspaper article AP newswire Centennial Celebration 1 single 12x21 1947 laminated TA 10 Newspaper article AP newswire "Edison - Family Man" 2 single 12x60 1947 laminated Department of the Interior - o ^ TA 11 Booklet booklet "Beehives of Invention" 80 double 6 x 9 1973 bound TA 13 Booklet Chemistry Magazine "Thomas Edison: Pioneer of Applied Chemistry" 4 8 double 8.5x11 1970 staple bound £> 1 ^ TA 14 Booklet Library of Congress A Wonderful Invention" 2^44 double 8.5x11 1977 staple bound C < ^ "Edison - The Man Who Turned Darkness into TA 15 Booklet Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Light" •to double 5.5 x 8.5 1978 staple bound o t v "The Beginning of the Incandescent Lamp Lighting \£> e K , TA 16 Booklet The Edison Institute System" 40 double 7x 10 1976 staple bound 6 TA 17 Booklet Edison Birthplace Association "Edison - Inspiration to Youth" 88 double 6 x 9 1962 staple bound ^ o V-—' TA 18 Booklet Friends of the Edison Public Library "Thomas Alva Edison - the Wizard of Menlo Park" 16 double 7x8.5 unknown staple bound TA 19 Photo Unknown Thomas Edison as a young man (1881) 1 single 8.5 x 11 unknown laminated TA 20 Photo Unknown Thomas Edison in His Chemical Lab in 1906 1 single 8.5 x 11 unknown laminated Edison Digitalization - 2 Thomas Edison at Time Clock, Laboratory West TA 21 Photo Unknown Orange, 2/11/21 1 single 8.5x11 unknown laminated TA 22 Photo Unknown Upstairs Room of Menlo Park Laboratory, 1880 1 single 8.5x11 unknown laminated J) \*— cardboard mounted & 0 TA 23 Photo Unknown Kinescope, Phonograph & Graphophone Arcade 1 Single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated caiuuuaiu------mounted & ■ i S TA 24 Photo Unknown Edison and the "Edison Effect" -1883 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated : d cardboard Edison with Goldenrod from which he produced mounted & TA 25 Photo Unknown natural rubber (1927) 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cardboard Edison with an early model of the phonograph, mounted & o ^ TA 26 Photo Unknown 1877 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cardboard Edison Listens to Two of His Artists (Helendavis mounted & 0 ^ TA 27 Photo Unknown and Victor Young) 1 single 9.5x14 unknown laminated cai uuuai u------Edison checks a phonograph cutting with the mounted & c ^ - ~ TA 28 Photo Unknown Phonograph Microscope 1 single 9.5x14 unknown laminated cd cardboard Edison listening to the phonograph - cupping ear mounted & <3 ' TA 29 Photo Unknown due to deafness 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cardboard mounted & TA 30 Photo Unknown Edison - profile portrait 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated tarquua i u------mounted & TA 31 Photo Unknown Edison - profile portrait (candid?) 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cd TA 32 Newspaper article Edison Centennial "Edison's Ligh Bulb Burned for a Century" 1 single 4.5 x 9.5 1979 laminated * TA 33 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Centennial of Light UnderwaY" 00 double 8.5x11 Sept 1978 unbound o "Industry Communicators Participating in Centennial Briefed at Edison Institute and Tour t— 00 TA 34 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News Exhibits" double 8.5x11 Oct 1978 unbound 00 >v^ TA 35 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Centennial Education program Announced" double 8.5 x 11 Nov 1978 unbound TA 36 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Edison Birthday Symposium Still Has Openings" ^ 4 double 8.5 x 11 Dec 1978 unbound Edison Digitalization - 3 Le TA 37 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Netherlands Gets Celebration Underway" 12 double 8.5x11 Jan 1979 staple bound O ^ TA 38 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "White House Welcom for Centennial Committee" 8 double 8.5x11 Feb 1979 unbound TA 39 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Communicator's Kits Distributed to Companies" ^ 8 double 8.5x11 Mar 1979 staple bound "Public Service Announcements for Radio and TV 00 C >+~ TA 40 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News Available to Centennial Participants" double 8.5x11 Apr 1979 staple bound V ' 00 TA 41 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Centennial Scholars Gather at GE in Cleveland" double 8.5x11 May 1979 staple bound o ^ "Con Edison's Luce Inaugurates Centennial Walking TA 42 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News Tours" 8 double 8.5x11 June 1979 staple bound o )(— "The Endless Search, Edison Film Available from TA 43 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News Screen News Digest" 8 double 8.5x11 Jul 1979 staple bound TA 44 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "1929 Edison Scholars Hold Their First Reunion" 8 double 8.5x11 Aug 1979 staple bound 0*-~ TA 45 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "ICCL Chairman Smith: U.S. Needs 'Edisons'" ^ 8 double 8.5x11 Sept 1979 staple bound o *— "Greenfield Village is Centennial Focal Point Oct oV~~. TA 46 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News 21" * u double 8.5x11 Oct 1979 staple bound "President Carter Unveils Program for Stimulating 00 c TA 47 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News Undustrial Innovation" double 8.5x11 Dec 1979 staple bound "Centennial Success Paves Way for Promising TA 48 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News Second Century of Light" ^ 4 double 8.5x11 Jan 1979 unbound 1o TA 49 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Centennial Report Now Available" 42- 4 double 8.5x11 Aug 1979 unbound V ET 50 Newspaper article "The Review" "Pre-historic Settlement Uncovered" l single 7x 13 1986 Laminated A ^ \ e k c ? 4C Municipal Council of the Township Declaration of 1979 as "Thomas A. Edison ■2? ET 51 Resolution of Edison Centennial Year" 2 single 8.5x11 1979 stapled 6**C_ "Reenactment of Light Invention Leads Oct 21 4 o t - TA 52 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News Edison Celebrations Around the World" 8 double 8.5 x 11 Nov 1979 stapled TA 53 Booklet Unknown "The Edison Tower - Menlo Park, NJ" 20 double 4 x 9 unknown stapled D Greenfield Village & Henry Ford /I TA 54 Booklet Museum "The menlo Park Story" o ^ 20 double 7x10 1978 stapled It it 2 * % 5 \o \o a O \ TA 55 Booklet Unknown "A Brief Biography of Thomas Alva Edison" 40 double 3.75x5.5 unknown stapled TA 56 Booklet PSE&G "Thomas Edison: They Called Him Wizard" 48 double 8.5x11 1979 stapled 6 ' cardboard Replica of First Incandescent Lamp Invented mounted & TA 58 Photo Unknown October 21,1879 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cardboard ^ Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory in the Winter of mounted & o TA 59 Photo Unknown 1879 1 single 9.5x14 unknown laminated cardboard The "Black Maria" - first motion picture studio mounted & o k . TA 60 Photo Unknown which revolved on a track 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cardboard The Electrical Vote Recorder - Edison's First mounted & TA 61 Photo Unknown Patented Invention, October 11,1868 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cardboard mounted & o K TA 62 Photo Unknown Interior of Edison Library at West Orange, NJ 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cardboard The First Phonograph, Invented by Edison August mounted & o f C TA 63 Photo Unknown 12,1877 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Assistants of Thomas Edison take experimental £> K TA 64 Photo Unknown electric train for a run - Menlo Park NJ 1 single 8.5x11 unknown Laminated cardboard The "Mary Ann" Dynamo Invented by Edison and mounted & ^ c e TA 65 Photo Unknown Used in His Pearl Street Station 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Close-up of the Commemorative Plaque from Raritan Twp on the 100th Anniversary of Edison's C> TA 66 Photo Unknown Birth 1 single 8.5x11 unknown laminated cardboard mounted & o TA 67 Photo Unknown Edison's Birthplace, Milan Ohio, Born Feb 11, 1847 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Thomas Edison at 14 - when he was a newsboy on <£> TA 68 Photo Unknown the Grand Trunk Railway 1 single 8.5x11 unknown laminated Thomas Edison Demonstarting his Tin-Foil Phonograph in Washington DC, April 1878. 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TA 69 Photo Unknown by Matthew Brady. 1 single 8.5 x 11 unknown laminated TA 70 Photo Unknown Portrait of Thomas Edison 1 single 8.5 x 11 1877 laminated TA 71 Photo Unknown Edison in his West Orange Laboratory, 1890 1 single 8.5 x 11 1890 laminated cardboard Edison After Five Days Spent Developing the mounted & TA 72 Photo Unknown Phonograph 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Edison Digitalization - 5 TA 73 Photo Unknown Edison in His West Orange Machine Shop, 1892 1 single 8.5 x 11 1892 laminated Edison Sitting in Chair in front of the officeof his ore-milling plant, The New Jersey and O ^ Pennsylvania Concentrating Works, Edison, NJ TA 74 Photo Unknown 1895 1 single 8.5x11 1895 laminated cardboard mounted & o TA 75 Photo Unknown Edison in His Chemistry Lab at West Orange. 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated lqi uuuai u mounted & TA 76 Photo Unknown Edison at the Telegraph Key. 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Edison Re-enacts the Invention of His Incandescent Lamp as Henry Ford and Francis Jehl (his lab cardboard O ^ assistant at Menlo Park) Look on - at The Light's mounted & TA 77 Photo Unknown Golden Jubilee in 1929. 1 single 9.5 x 14 1929 laminated Edison with Eastman's Strip Film Which He Used In cardboard His Motion Picture Camera Invented in 1889 and mounted & TA 78 Photo Unknown Pateneted July 31, 1891. 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cdo>^ Edison with the Miner's Safety Lamp Which He cardboard Invented in 1914 at the Request of the U.S. Bureau mounted & TA 79 Photo Unknown of Mines 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cardboard Edison With A Model of the First Typewriter in mounted & TA 80 Photo Unknown 1871 1 single 9.5x14 unknown laminated CD TA only Photo Edison with Nickel from Alkaline Storage Battery CD Edison in his Chemical Lab in 1906. This Bldg is TA Only Photo now part of the Edison National Historic Site Edison Digitalization -1 ET 50 Newspaper article "The Review" "Pre-historic Settlement Uncovered" 1 single 7x13 1986 Laminated "Opening of Edison's Desk, Sealed 15 Years, Starts TA 9 Newspaper article AP newswire Centennial Celebration 1 single 12x21 1947 laminated TA 10 Newspaper article AP newswire "Edison - Family Man" 2 single 12x60 1947 laminated TA 11 Booklet Chemistry Magazine "Thomas Edison: Pioneer of Applied Chemistry" 8 double 8.5x11 1970 staple bound Department of the Interior - TA 12 Booklet booklet "Beehives of Invention" 80 double 6 x 9 1973 bound TA 13 Booklet Edison Birthplace Association "Edison - Inspiration to Youth" 88 double 6 x 9 1962 staple bound TA 32 Newspaper article Edison Centennial "Edison's Ligh Bulb Burned for a Century" 1 single 4.5 x 9.5 1979 laminated TA 33 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Centennial of Light UnderwaY" 8 double 8.5x11 Sept 1978 unbound Centennial Briefed at Edison Institute and Tour TA 34 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News Exhibits" 8 double 8.5x11 Oct 1978 unbound TA 35 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Centennial Education program Announced" 8 double 8.5x11 Nov 1978 unbound TA 36 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Edison Birthday Symposium Still Has Openings" 4 double 8.5x11 Dec 1978 unbound TA 37 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Netherlands Gets Celebration Underway" 12 double 8.5 x 11 Jan 1979 staple bound TA 38 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "White House Welcom for Centennial Committee" 8 double 8.5 x 11 Feb 1979 unbound TA 39 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Communicator's Kits Distributed to Companies" 8 double 8.5x11 Mar 1979 staple bound TA 40 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Public Service Announcements for Radio and TV 8 double 8.5x11 Apr 1979 staple bound TA 41 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Centennial Scholars Gather at GE in Cleveland" 8 double 8.5x11 May 1979 staple bound "Con Edison's Luce Inaugurates Centennial Walking TA 42 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News Tours" 8 double 8.5x11 June 1979 staple bound "The Endless Search, Edison Film Available from TA 43 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News Screen News Digest" 8 double 8.5x11 Jul 1979 staple bound TA 44 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "1929 Edison Scholars Hold Their First Reunion" 8 double 8.5 x 11 Aug 1979 staple bound TA 45 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "ICCL Chairman Smith: U.S. Needs 'Edisons' " 8 double 8.5 x 11 Sept 1979 staple bound "Greenfield Village is Centennial Focal Point Oct TA 46 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News 21" 12 double 8.5 x 11 Oct 1979 staple bound N tvS p ,,^ /?*/, I / H& 2 crin Si at) / Edison Digitalization - 2 "President Carter Unveils Program for Stimulating TA 47 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News Undustrial Innovation" 8 double 8.5x11 Dec 1979 staple bound "Centennial Success Paves Way for Promising TA 48 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News Second Century of Light" 4 double 8.5 x 11 Jan 1979 unbound TA 49 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News "Centennial Report Now Available" 4 double 8.5x11 Aug 1979 unbound "Reenactment of Light Invention Leads Oct 21 TA 52 Pamphlet Edison Centennial News Edison Celebrations Around the World" 8 double 8.5x11 Nov 1979 stapled TA 53 Booklet Friends of the Edison Public Library "Thomas Alva Edison - the Wizard of Menlo Park" 16 double 7x8.5 unknown staple bound Greenfield Village & Flenry Ford TA 54 Booklet Museum "The menlo Park Story" 20 double 7 x1 0 1978 stapled TA 4 Newspaper article Flome News "The Day the 'Wizard' Died" 2 single 5x13.5 1981 laminated TA 8 Newspaper article Home News "An Anniversary Overlooked" 1 single 23x14 1969 laminated TA 9 Booklet Library of Congress A Wonderful Invention" 44 double 8.5 x 11 1977 staple bound Municipal Council of the Township Declaration of 1979 as "Thomas A. Edison ET 51 Resolution of Edison Centennial Year" 2 single 8.5x11 1979 stapled TA 52 Booklet New Jersey Historical Society "1879 - 1979 The Centennial of Light" 32 double 8.5x11 1978 staple bound TA 3 Magazine article New Jersey Living "Wizard of Menlo Park" 4 single 8.5x11 1986 laminated TA 5 Newspaper article New York Post "Thomas Edison's Power Play" 1 single 10.5x6.5 1979 laminated TA 1 Newspaper News Tribune News Tribune - A Century of Light (special edition) 12 double 12x14 1979 yellowed, folded TA 56 Booklet PSE&G "Thomas Edison: They Called Him Wizard" 48 double 8.5x11 1979 stapled # Single/Doubl Year TA or ET Type of Item Publication Name or Publisher Name of Item Pgs e Sides Size Published Comment Edison Digitalization - 3 "The Beginning of the Incandescent Lamp Lighting TA 1 Booklet The Edison Institute System" 40 double 7x 10 1976 staple bound The Signal Fire - Newsletter - TA 7 Newsletter Middlesex County Cultural and Special Edition - "The Wizard of Menlo Park" 4 double 8.5x11 1986 laminated "Edison - The Man Who Turned Darkness into TA 8 Booklet Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Light" 60 double 5.5 x 8.5 1978 staple bound TA 2 Newspaper article Unknown "Neighbor Thomas Edison: a Quiet Man of Action" 1 single 12x9.5 1990 laminated TA 6 Magazine article Unknown "The Edisons of West Orange" 3 single 8.5x11 1985 laminated TA 7 Photo Unknown Thomas Edison as a young man (1881) 1 single 8.5x11 unknown laminated TA 8 Photo Unknown Thomas Edison in His Chemical Lab in 1906 1 single 8.5x11 unknown laminated Thomas Edison at Time Clock, Laboratory West TA 9 Photo Unknown Orange, 2/11/21 1 single 8.5x11 unknown laminated TA 10 Photo Unknown Upstairs Room of Menlo Park Laboratory, 1880 1 single 8.5x11 unknown laminated cardboard TA 11 Photo Unknown Kinescope, Phonograph & Graphophone Arcade 1 Single 9.5 x 14 unknown mounted & TA 12 Photo Unknown Edison and the "Edison Effect" -1883 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown mounted & cd Edison with Goldenrod from which he produced cardboard TA 13 Photo Unknown natural rubber (1927) 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown mounted & TA 14 Photo Unknown Edison with an early model of the phonograph, 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown cardboard Edison Listens to Two of His Artists (Helendavis mounted & TA 15 Photo Unknown and Victor Young) 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated TA 16 Photo Unknown Phonograph Microscope 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown mounted & cd cardboard Edison listening to the phonograph - cupping ear mounted & TA 17 Photo Unknown due to deafness 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated TA 18 Photo Unknown Edison - profile portrait 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown cardboard TA 19 Photo Unknown Edison - profile portrait (candid?) 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown mounted & cd TA 53 Booklet Unknown "The Edison Tower - Menlo Park, NJ" 20 double 4 x 9 unknown stapled TA 55 Booklet Unknown "A Brief Biography of Thomas Alva Edison" 40 double 3.75x5.5 unknown stapled cardboard mounted & TA 57 Photo Unknown The Fluoroscope" which Edison developed in 1896 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Edison Digitalization - 4 cardboard Replica of First Incandescent Lamp Invented mounted & TA 58 Photo Unknown October 21, 1879 1 single 9.5x14 unknown laminated cardboard Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory in the Winter of mounted & TA 59 Photo Unknown 1879 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cardboard The "Black Maria" - first motion picture studio mounted & TA 60 Photo Unknown which revolved on a track 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cardboard The Electrical Vote Recorder - Edison's First mounted & TA 61 Photo Unknown Patented Invention, October 11, 1868 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cardboard mounted & TA 62 Photo Unknown Interior of Edison Library at West Orange, NJ 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cardboard The First Phonograph, Invented by Edison August mounted & TA 63 Photo Unknown 12, 1877 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Assistants of Thomas Edison take experimental TA 64 Photo Unknown electric train for a run - Menlo Park NJ 1 single 8.5x11 unknown Laminated cardboard The "Mary Ann" Dynamo Invented by Edison and mounted & TA 65 Photo Unknown Used in His Pearl Street Station 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Close-up of the Commemorative Plaque from Raritan Twp on the 100th Anniversary of Edison's TA 66 Photo Unknown Birth 1 single 8.5x11 unknown laminated cardboard mounted & TA 67 Photo Unknown Edison's Birthplace, Milan Ohio, Born Feb 11,1847 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Thomas Edison at 14 - when he was a newsboy on TA 68 Photo Unknown the Grand Trunk Railway 1 single 8.5x11 unknown laminated Thomas Edison Demonstarting his Tin-Foil Phonograph in Washington DC, April 1878. Photo TA 69 Photo Unknown by Matthew Brady. 1 single 8.5 x 11 unknown laminated TA 70 Photo Unknown Portrait of Thomas Edison 1 single 8.5x11 1877 laminated TA 71 Photo Unknown Edison in his West Orange Laboratory, 1890 1 single 8.5 x 11 1890 laminated cardboard Edison After Five Days Spent Developing the mounted & TA 72 Photo Unknown Phonograph 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Edison Digitalization - 5 TA 73 Photo Unknown Edison in His West Orange Machine Shop, 1892 1 single 8.5x11 1892 laminated Edison Sitting in Chair in front of the officeof his ore-milling plant, The New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Works, Edison, NJ TA 74 Photo Unknown 1895 1 single 8.5x11 1895 laminated cardboard mounted & TA 75 Photo Unknown Edison in His Chemistry Lab at West Orange. 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated cai uuuai u mounted & TA 76 Photo Unknown Edison at the Telegraph Key. 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Edison Re-enacts the Invention of His Incandescent Lamp as Henry Ford and Francis Jehl (his lab cardboard assistant at Menlo Park) Look on - at The Light's mounted & TA 77 Photo Unknown Golden Jubilee in 1929. 1 single 9.5 x 14 1929 laminated Edison with Eastman’s Strip Film Which He Used In cardboard His Motion Picture Camera Invented in 1889 and mounted & TA 78 Photo Unknown Pateneted July 31,1891. 1 single 9.5 x 14 unknown laminated Edison with the Miner's Safety Lamp Which He cardboard Invented in 1914 at the Request of the U.S. Bureau mounted & TA 79 Photo Unknown of Mines 1 single 9.5x14 unknown laminated cardboard Edison With A Model of the First Typewriter in mounted & TA 80 Photo Unknown 1871 1 single 9.5x14 unknown laminated CD TA only Photo Edison with Nickel from Alkaline Storage Battery CD Edison in his Chemical Lab in 1906. This Bldg is TA Only Photo now part of the Edison National Historic Site