Dismantling Sarah Jordan Boarding House in Menlo Park, New Jersey for Move to Greenfield Village, 1928

THF128626 / Dismantling Sarah Jordan Boarding House in Menlo Park, New Jersey for Move to Greenfield Village, 1928

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1928

Collection Title

Location

Object ID

84.1.1630.P.MP.27

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Dimensions

Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in

Keywords	United States, New Jersey, Edison, Menlo Park Photographic prints Photographs Buildings (Structures) Cellars (Storage spaces) Dismantling Houses Stairs Original sites Sarah Jordan Boarding House

Artifact
Sarah Jordan Boarding House
The Menlo Park complex was an all-male environment; the closest workaday involvement of women -- not forgetting that Edison and several of his personnel were married -- was at the Sarah Jordan boardinghouse. Offering room and board for unmarried employees at the complex, it was operated by Sarah Jordan, a distant relative of Edison's. The house also played host to the experimental lighting system installed throughout Menlo Park in December 1879.