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Legal Series -- Legal Department Records -- Motion Pictures -- Correspondence: Color Photography -- Davidson, William N. L. (1905)
[QM007]

This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating mainly to color processes invented by William N. Lascelles Davidson of Brighton, England. The selected documents are from 1905. Included are letters by Davidson; John R. Schermerhorn, assistant general manager of the Edison Manufacturing Co.; and James H. White, managing director of the Edison Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Some of the documents pertain to Davidson's collaboration with William Friese-Greene on color animation.

All of the documents have been selected. Related correspondence can be found in the "1905. Motion Pictures" folder in the Document File Series.



Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park.