Sarah Jordan Boarding House in Greenfield Village, September 2007

Summary

In 1879, Sarah Jordan ran a boarding house a short walk from Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory in New Jersey. Her boarding house was home to more than a dozen unmarried men working at the laboratory. Today, this house and other Menlo Park Complex buildings in Greenfield Village offer visitors a glimpse into the lives of those who developed and witnessed the first successful incandescent lamp.

In 1879, Sarah Jordan ran a boarding house a short walk from Thomas Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory in New Jersey. Her boarding house was home to more than a dozen unmarried men working at the laboratory. Today, this house and other Menlo Park Complex buildings in Greenfield Village offer visitors a glimpse into the lives of those who developed and witnessed the first successful incandescent lamp.

Artifact

Digital image

Subject Date

September 2007

Creators

Andonian, Michelle 

Creator Notes

Photographed by Michelle Andonian.

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2008.171.468

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Technique

Digital photography (Digital camera)

Color

Multicolored

Sarah Jordan Boarding House

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