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Company Records Series -- Motion Picture Patents Company -- Administrative Records:
[CK900A]

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These records consist of correspondence and other documents, including agreements, minutes, announcements, and financial statements. The correspondents include Frank L. Dyer, president of MPPCo, Harry N. Marvin, vice president (later president), and George F. Scull, secretary. There are also letters to or from Edison or bearing his marginalia. Many of the documents relate to license agreements with manufacturers and exhibitors. Also included are items pertaining to the federal government's antitrust suit against MPPCo and other litigation involving the company. In addition, there are several agreements with Eastman Kodak Co., along with correspondence with Eastman Kodak and the National Waterproof Film Co.

The selected folders are arranged in the following order: (1) Correspondence and Agreements (1900, 1908-1918); (2) Documents (1908-1912); (3) Eastman Kodak Company (1908-1913); (4) Memoranda (1908-1918); (5) National Waterproof Film Company (1909-1913); (6) Newspaper Clippings (1908-1912); and (7) Trade Journals (1908-1912).

Records not selected

Buckbee Detective Service (1909)
This folder contains correspondence relating to unlicenced motion picture enterprises. Included are letters by George F. Scull of the Edison Manufacturing Co. and Charles A. Buckbee of New York.
Electro Chemical and Engraving Company (1909-1910
This folder consists primarily of correspondence between the Edison Manufacturing Co. and the Electro Chemical and Engraving Co. of Brooklyn. The documents concern the production of metal name plates containing patent license information for motion picture equipment.
Hamacek, Adolph F. (1909- 1910)
This folder contains correspondence between Frank L. Dyer and Adolph F. Hamacek, an inventor from Chicago.


Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park.