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Edison Electric Light Company Records, 1879-1894

Title: Edison Electric Light Company Records 1879-1894

Copies of patents granted by the government of Canada to Thomas A. Edison and employees of his firm and codes for insurance underwriters in the United States to create national standards for electrical constuction and operation.

ArchivalResource: 3 items; 3 oversize containers; 0.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008127 View

Edison Electric Light Company. Receipts, 1903-1907.

Title: Receipts, 1903-1907.

Company receipts relating to the York, Pa., area.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70971020 View

Robert Wetherill & Company. Letterpress copybooks, 1882-1916.

Title: Letterpress copybooks, 1882-1916.

The Robert Wetherill & Company letterbooks contain copies of letters written to customers and suppliers. They show that most of the firm's output consisted of custom work, with the customer and the Wetherill firm working closely together to produce an industrial power plant for a specific purpose. The letterbooks often contain sketches which were presented to the customer for review and modification. The volumes show that by the 1890s the Wetherill firm had built an extensive customer network, primarily in the Northeast and Midwest. Its customers included the U.S. Navy and some of the nation's major railroad, traction, chemical and electric light and power companies.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122516287 View

Henry Villard business papers, 1862-1928 (inclusive), 1870-1900 (bulk)

Title: Henry Villard business papers, 1862-1928 (inclusive), 1870-1900 (bulk)

Business records, correspondence, and photographs of 19th century railroad and electrical industry financier Henry Villard (1835-1900)

ArchivalResource: 87 linear ft. (127 vols., 124 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/bak00046/catalog View

Utility Workers Organization in New York.

Title: Utility Workers Organization in New York.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180689792 View

Mechanical & electrical power collection, 1785-1940.

Title: Mechanical & electrical power collection, 1785-1940.

An assembled collection containing a variety of material relating to mechanical and electrical power, the collection is divided into four series: Electrical Power, Internal Combustion Power, Steam Power, and Other Power Sources. Included are manuscript materials, newspaper and professional trade journal clippings, original trade literature, technical drawings, a few ephemera items, and photographic prints. The Electrical Power series is the largest series with 140 electric power suppliers and electrical equipment manufacturers represented.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/742062123 View

Clark-McCreary papers 1815-1936 1846-1919 Clark-McCreary papers

Title: Clark-McCreary papers 1815-1936 1846-1919 Clark-McCreary papers

The majority of this collection consists of correspondence related to the families of David B. McCreary and his daughter, Sophia McCreary Clark ("Sophy"), both of Erie, Pennsylvania. David and his wife, Annette, corresponded with family and acquaintances throughout the mid- to late 19th century, including the Civil War era and the Spanish-American War era. The letters of Sophy, her husband Henry, and their daughter Annette span the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-3057.7cla?rgn=main;view=text View

Edison Electric Light Company. Scripts, 1909-1916.

Title: Scripts, 1909-1916.

Scripts for hundreds of films produced by the Edison Company.

ArchivalResource: 8 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86152578 View

Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931. Thomas A. Edison papers, 1877-1927.

Title: Thomas A. Edison papers, 1877-1927.

Correspondence, letters of introduction, and telegrams concerning Edison's inventions such as the electric light, electric pen, graphophone, and phonograph; and sale of letters of patent to the Edison Electric Light Company. Topics include injury caused by cigarettes and a visit from Mark Twain. Correspondents include George H. Bliss, John Dean, and Werner von Siemens.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.1 folder plus 1 oversize.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71131315 View

Upton, Francis Robbins, 1852-1921. Scrapbooks, 1877-1925.

Title: Scrapbooks, 1877-1925.

Scrapbooks containing letters, certificates, printed matter, and photos, illustrating Upton's career as the first recipient of a master of science degree granted by Princeton University, at Thomas A. Edison's Menlo Park laboratories where he worked on incandescent light, and later as president of Edison Pioneers, an organization of early employees of the Edison Company. Includes letters of Thomas A. Edison and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70955078 View

Dolson, Fred O. Reports on Mono Basin and Owens River Projects.

Title: Reports on Mono Basin and Owens River Projects. 1923.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26779747 View

Charity Organization Society of the City of New York. Tenement House Committee. Map showing over-crowding of the buildings on the lots and the consequent lack of light and air space also strong-holds of poverty and agencies for betterment in the tenement house district bounded by 3rd Ave., East River, 40th, 34th Streets / prepared for the Tenement House Committee of the Charity Organization Society, under the direction of Lawrence Veiller.

Title: Map showing over-crowding of the buildings on the lots and the consequent lack of light and air space also strong-holds of poverty and agencies for betterment in the tenement house district bounded by 3rd Ave., East River, 40th, 34th Streets / prepared for the Tenement House Committee of the Charity Organization Society, under the direction of Lawrence Veiller. 1899.

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., col. ; 103 x 124 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58662840 View

Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931. Thomas A. Edison collection, 1915-1925.

Title: Thomas A. Edison collection, 1915-1925.

Two pieces of correspondence (1915 and 1925) from Edison and the Edison Company to Edward C. Horne, district manager of the Harger & Blish Co. of Des Moines, Iowa and a broadside advertising the Edison Company's tone tests which challenged audiences to tell the difference between a live singer (Anna Case) and a recording of the singer played on the Edison phonograph.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/277055355 View

Villard, Henry, 1835-1900. Henry Villard business papers, 1862-1900 (inclusive).

Title: Henry Villard business papers, 1862-1900 (inclusive).

Correspondence, legal papers, accounts, printed documents, and clippings relating to personal and business matters. Includes material relating to the Kansas Pacific Railway, Northern Pacific Railroad, Wisconsin Central Railroad, and other railroads; Oregon enterprises including the Oregon Improvement Company, Oregon Steamship Company, Oregon and Transcontinental Company, Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, Oregon and California Railroad, and North American Company; and to the Deutsche Bank, Siemens & Halske, American Liquid Fuel Company, Edison Electric Light Company, the Northern Transcontinental Survey, and the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Correspondents include Thomas F. Oakes, Raphael Pumpelly, C.A. Spofford, Lewis N. Tappan, and James B. Thayer.

ArchivalResource: 45 linear ft., (170 v., 90 boxes)Copies: 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122575843 View

A.H. Bickmore & Company. Trade catalogs of lighting, 1846-1941.

Title: Trade catalogs of lighting, 1846-1941.

Trade catalogs of gas-lighting and fixtures, gas companies, electric generators, municipal lighting, ultraviolet lights, and other ephemera relating to lighting.

ArchivalResource: 102 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122563046 View

Painter, Uriah Hunt, 1837-1900. Papers, 1855-1936.

Title: Papers, 1855-1936.

The main body of the collection consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1855-1900. During the Civil War, Painter was a Washington correspondent of the "Philadelphia Inquirer" and there is some routine correspondence from this period. The bulk of the correspondence is for the years 1875-1900 and deals with Painter's numerous business interests. This material is also largely routine, but it represents a variety of industrial enterprises. Among the companies are: The Edison Speaking Phonograph Co., American Graphophone Co., Western Union Telegraph Co., New York, Pennsylvania, and Norfolk Railroad Co., Pennsylvania Railroad, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Co., Union Pacific Railroad Co., Edison Electric Light Co., Edison General Electric Co., Western Electric Co., General Incandescent Arc Light Co., and Interior Conduit and Insulation Co.. The correspondents include: Thomas A. Edison, Thomas T. Eckerts, President of Western Union Telegraph Co., and Grenville M. Dodge, President of the Colorado and Texas Railway Construction Co.. The correspondence includes letterbooks dealing with the New York, Pennsylvania, and Norfolk Railroad Co.; Edward H. Johnson letterbooks of the Edison Company for Isolated Lighting; and business letterbooks of William Painter, Uriah Painter's brother. The collection also contains the business records of two Painter enterprises: Edison Speaking Phonograph Co., 1878-1880 (25 v.), -- including letterbooks, account books, and other material, with letters to and from Thomas Edison; and Danville Furnace, Danville, PA, 1879-1884 (21 v., 200 items), -- including correspondence, receipted bills, other accounts, and records.

ArchivalResource: 21 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122584677 View

Vanden Berg, P. H. Historical manuscript dealing with a southern California enterprise and its founder Earl H. Richardson, 1945.

Title: Historical manuscript dealing with a southern California enterprise and its founder Earl H. Richardson, 1945.

The manuscript, which was written as a tribute to Earl H. Richardson, covers the entire history of Richardson's work with electric appliances. Starting with his first invention of the Hotpoint iron and opening his own company in 1906, it continues through General Electric's purchase of the company in 1927 and his death in 1934. The author, who had worked for Richardson for over thirty years, includes details about Richardson's life, his various inventions, the company's operations and employees, the growth of the company, and the history of Ontario, California. Also included is an obituary for Earl H. Richardson. The manuscript is illustrated with photographs.

ArchivalResource: 56 pages, bound typescript, 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122585009 View