Inventor Name
Edison, Thomas Alva
Repository
Edison National Historic Site
The Edison Archives
Main Street and Lakeside Avenue
West Orange, NJ 07052
973-736-0550 ext. 22
https://www.nps.gov/edis/learn/historyculture/research.htm
Summary
The Edison Papers are divided into record groups: Edison Personal, Laboratory and Business Records include account books, blueprints, doucment file, employee records, incoming correspondence, letterbooks, library, motion pictures, notebooks, patent records, photographs, primary printed material Edison Companies, primary printed material non-Edison Companies, scrapbooks, vouchers and other financial records. Company Records consist of Bates Manufacturing Company, Chemical Prodcution, Ediphone Division of T.A.E. Inc., Edison Biographical Collection, Edison Botanic Research Corporation, Edison Company Minute Books, Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston, Edison Electric Light Company of Europe, Edison Estate, Edison Family, Edison machine Works, Edison Manufacturing Company, Edison Ore Milling Company, Edison Ore Milling Syndicate Ltd., Edison Phonograph Company, Edison Phonograph Works, Edison Phonplex System, Edison Portland Cement Company, Edison-Saunders Compressed Air Company, Edison Storage Battery Company, Engineering Department, Historical Research Department, legal Services Department and retained firms, Mining Exploration Company opf New Jersey, Motion Picture Division, National Phonograph Company, New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Works, New York Concentrating Works, North American Phonograph Company and subsidiary companies, Ogden Iron Company, Phonograph Division, Primary Battery Division, Recording Division and related offices, record Manufacturing Division, Sussex County iron Company, Thomas A. Edison Central Station Construction Department, Thomas A. Edison Inc., West Orange Corporation, Wisconsin Cabinet and Panel Company. Sepcial Collections conatin personal organizational subseries. The personal series contains AndersonPapers, Bailey Collection, Batchelor Collection, Biographical Collection, Dickson Collection, Elliott Papers, Hutchison Diary, Jones Papers, kellow Files, Kennelly Records, Kruesi Collection, Mallory Papers, Meadowcroft Collection, Miller Collection, Miller Papers, Oral Historu Interviews, Telfair correspondence, Upton Records, and Whelan Papers. The organizational series consists of the Charles Edison Fund Collection, Edison Pioneers Records, Edison Scholarship Contest Records, Motion Picture Patents Company Muckers of the Edison Laboratory Records, Naval Consulting Board Papers, Thomas A. Edison Foundation Records. The Thomas A. Edison Papers Project (http://edison.rutgers.edu) is one of the most ambitious editing projects ever undertaken by an American university. For decades, the 5 million pages of documents that chronicle the extraordinary life and achievements of Thomas Alva Edison remained hidden and inaccessible to members of the general public. Since the massive project began in 1978, a team of editors/scholars has been turning this incomparable trove of Edisonia into a premier educational resource. Fulfilling their original mission, they have made Edison accessible - and comprehensible - to countless numbers of young and lifetime learners. In the process, the Edison Papers team has produced a series of richly interactive publications. The Edison Papers is co-sponsored by Rutgers, the State UNiversity of New Jersey, the National Park Service, the New Jersey Historical Commission, and the Smithsonian Institution.
Finding Aid
http://edison.rutgers.edu/editions.htm