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Company Records Series -- Motion Picture Patents Company -- Licensed Manufacturers: Vitagraph Company of America (1908-1918)
[CK925]

This folder contains correspondence and other documents covering the period 1908-1912, with a few additional items from 1913, 1916, and 1918. Many of the letters are by Frank L. Dyer and George F. Scull of the Edison Manufacturing Co. and representatives of the Vitagraph Co., including William T. Rock and J. Stuart Blackton. Included are letters pertaining to the establishment of branch houses; packages for the shipment of motion pictures; and restraints in hiring employees from other members of MPPCo. A few letters concern foreign markets, advertisements, and copyright.

Approximately 30 percent of the documents have been selected.



Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park.