Thomas Edison and Employees in Menlo Park Laboratory, Edison, New Jersey, February 22, 1880
THF116541 / Thomas Edison and Employees in Menlo Park Laboratory, Edison, New Jersey, February 22, 1880
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Artifact Overview
The names of "star" designers might lodge in our minds, just as the names of innovators like Thomas Edison do. But while the essential vision for a design might arise from an individual, it is typically collaboration that drives design ideas through to results. At the Menlo Park laboratory many experimenters undertook the research that made Edison's vision a reality.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
22 February 1880
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
87.18.58.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard
Technique
Albumen process
Color
Brown
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in
Inscriptions
front borders, written in pencil:
Interior of Edison's Laboratory, Menlo Park, N.J., taken Feb. 22, 1880, [signed] Chas. L. Clarke. From the original negative, extremely rare. See other side.
verso, written in ink:
This is an old silver albumen print from a photographic negative of the second floor interior of Thomas Alva Edison's Laboratory, at Menlo Park, N.J., taken February 22nd, 1880 - Washington's Birthday. Members of the laboratory force then present were, from left to right: Ludwig K. Boehm, Chas.L. Clarke, Chas. Batchelor, Wm. Carman, Sam. D. Mott, Chas. Dean, Thos. A. Edison, Chas. T. Hughes, Geo. Hill, Geo. Carman, Francis Jehl, John W. Lawson, Chas. Flammer, Chas. P. Mott, James V. Mac Kenzie, [signed] Chas. L Clarke, Schenectady, N.Y., Jany. 12, 1926.
verso, written in pencil:
Interior of Edison's Laboratory, Feb. 22, 1880 [arrow] Original memorandum by me, written soon after this date. [signed] Chas. L. Clarke, Aug. 20, 1932. [arrow next to stamp] My rubber stamp of 1881, at 65 Fifth Avenue, New York City, C.L.C.
verso, stamped in purple ink:
Charles L. Clarke, Private
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