Portrait of Sarah Jordan, Taken When She Was at Menlo Park, 1878-1885

THF254204 / Portrait of Sarah Jordan, Taken When She Was at Menlo Park, 1878-1885

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Carte-de-visite (Card photograph)

Subject Date

1878-1885

Collection Title

Location

Object ID

84.1.1630.22

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard

Technique

Albumen process

Dimensions

Height: 4.125 in
Width: 2.5 in

Inscriptions

written on front: Mrs. Sarah Jordan / taken when at Menlo Park

Keywords	United States, New Jersey, Edison, Menlo Park Cartes-de-visite (Card photographs) Photographs Portraits Women Boardinghouses Jordan, Sarah, 1837-1910 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.