Digital Edition

The Digital Edition presents the documentary resources of the Edison Papers to greater advantage and to a much wider and more diverse audience than the book and microfilm editions. Nearly 175,000 document images are now available in digital format. Currently, the Digital Edition includes documents from the archives of the Edison National Historic Sites scanned from Parts I-III of the Microfilm Edition, along with items from Outside Repositories, including private collections. (View a document sampler of selected images.)

Through its integrated structure and ease of access, the Digital Edition provides powerful search capabilities enabling users to search for authors, recipients, and names mentioned in a database of 143,500 document records and 23,300 names. The database also includes documents from Part IV and Part V of the microfilm edition.

Another feature enables users to search for words and phrases appearing in the approximately 5,600 targets (descriptive introductions) to the folders and volumes. Through the series notes, the edition provides links to targets at the series, subseries, and folder or volume levels. It also provides a list (with linked images) of all records in a particular folder or volume when the associated target is brought to the screen.

The Digital Edition was created with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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