Outside Repositories & Private Collections

The documents in Parts I-V of the image edition were selected from among the approximately 5 million pages of Edison-related material in the archives of the National Park Service's Thomas Edison National Historical Park (TENHP) in West Orange, N.J. However, thousands of additional documents have been located in more than one hundred repositories and private collections. Especially significant are the collections of Edison documents at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Research Center, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Library of Congress, National Archives, New-York Historical Society, New York Public Library, Smithsonian Institution, Wichita State University, and Yale University and the private collection of Charles Hummel. Additional collections of family correspondence found at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park (included in the microfilm edition), Charles Edison Fund, Edison-Ford Winter Estates, Chautauqua Institution, and David E. E. Sloane can be found in the Edison-Miller Family Records Series.

The links are to the item sets (folder or volume) for each collection.

REPOSITORIES

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, Cal. -- Margaret Herrick Library

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Washington, D.C.

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, N.Y.

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.

American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md. -- Center for the History of Physics -- Niels Bohr Library

American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia, Pa.

Simon Flexner Papers

James B. Murphy Papers

William J. Robbins Papers

Elihu Thomson Papers

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio

Archives Nationales, Paris, France

AT&T Archives, Warren, N.J.

Emile Berliner Correspondence

Francis Blake Correspondence

George H. Bliss Correspondence

Thomas E. Cornish Collection

Thomas B. A. David Correspondence

Thomas A. Edison Files: Exhibitions and Demonstrations; Experiments and Inventions; Patents; Miscellaneous

Edison Speaking Phonograph Company Records: Correspondence; Printed Materials

General Manager's Letterbooks

Gardiner G. Hubbard Correspondence

James J. Storrow Collection

Thomas A. Watson Correspondence

Western Electric Manufacturing Company Records: Agreements and Correspondence; Technical Notes and Drawings

Western Union Records

Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass. -- Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts

Brown University, Providence, R.I. -- The John Hay Library

Kenneth P. Whiting Papers

BT Archives, London, UK

Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Charles Darwin Archive

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. -- Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Montreal, Canada

Centro Cultural Alfa, Monterrey, Mexico

Charles Edison Fund Collection, Newark, N.J. see Family Records Series

Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, N.Y. see Family Records Series

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Frederic Allen Whiting Correspondence

Columbia University, New York, N.Y. -- Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Thomas A. Edison Papers

Cornell University Library, Ithaca, N.Y. -- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Jared T. Newman Papers

Robert H. Thurston Papers

Andrew D. White Papers

Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, N.H. -- Special Collections: Archives, Manuscripts, Rare Books

Percy W. MacKaye Papers

Charles A. Young Papers

Denver Public Library, Denver, Col. -- Western History/Genealogy Department

Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Mich.

Robert M. Zug Papers

Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. -- Boyd Lee Spahr Library Special Collections

Edison-Ford Winter Estates, Fort Myers, Fla. see Family Records Series

Essex County Hall of Records, Newark, N.J.

Office of the County Clerk -- Records of the Circuit Court

Office of the County Register of Deeds and Mortgages

Filson Club Historical Society, Louisville, Ky.

Frederick Royce Papers

Foundation of the Postal and Telecommunication Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Theodore Puskas Papers

Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, Pa.

George Eastman House, Rochester, N. Y.

Georgetown University Library, Washington, D.C. -- Special Collections Division

Thomas Armat Papers

Terry Ramsaye Papers

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Del.

S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company Records

Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Baker Library: R. G. Dun Collection; Raff & Gammon Collection; Terry Ramsaye Collection; Henry Villard Papers

Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine: Papers

Houghton Library: Henry Villard Papers

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Research Center, Dearborn, Mich.

Edison Papers and Related Items

Series I: Manuscripts

Thomas Alva Edison Correspondence: Correspondence (1862-1885); Correspondence (1887-1908); Correspondence (1911-1920); Correspondence (1921-1927); Correspondence (1928-1937); Correspondence (undated)

Thomas A. Edison–Henry Ford Office Correspondence: Correspondence (1913-1914); Correspondence (1915); Correspondence (1916); Correspondence (1917); Correspondence (1918); Correspondence (1919); Correspondence (1920); Correspondence (1921); Correspondence (1922); Correspondence (1923); Correspondence (1924); Correspondence (1925); Correspondence (1926); Correspondence (1927); Correspondence (1928); Correspondence (1929); Correspondence (1930); Correspondence (1931)

Thomas A. Edison Family Correspondence: Edison, Mina Miller; Oeser, Marion Edison; Edison, Thomas A., Jr., and Beatrice; Edison, William Leslie; Edison, Charles and Carolyn; Edison, Theodore M.; Edison, Samuel O.; Holzer, Alice Stilwell, and Family

General Correspondence and Reminiscences: Beach, Ralph H.; Bee, William G.; Brown, R.R.; Delany, Patrick B.; Devonshire, Robert W.; Dick, Albert B.; Ely, Robert E.; Greene, David M.; Gwynne, Charles T.; Johnson, Edward H.; Keefer, Samuel N.; Lonergan, John; Maisonville, Barnabe; McComas, Richard; Reynolds, W.C.; Richardson, T.A.; Sladen, Frank J.; Winters, Edward E.; Young, J.P.

Non-Correspondence

Series II: Thomas Alva Edison Notes, Drawings and Sketchbooks

Notebooks: Escapement Mechanisms (1872); Menlo Park Notebook #36 (1879); Storage Battery Notebook (1902); Unbound Notes and Drawings

Series III: Documents: Unbound Documents; Samuel Edison Expense Book

Series V: Edison Pioneers

Clarke, Charles L.

Unbound Documents

Notebooks

Electrical Experiments and Tests 1

Electrical Experiments and Tests 2

Electrical Experiments and Tests 3

Electrical Experiments and Tests 4

Electrical Light Meter 1

Electrical Light Meter 2

Electrical Light Meter 3

Electrical Light Meter 4

Electric Meters

Multiple Arc Distribution

Fibrous Carbon Arch Case 1

Fibrous Carbon Arch Case 2

Howell, John W.

Howell, Wilson: General; Letterbook; Pocket Notebook

Series VII: Printed Matter

Series X: Oversize Material

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

Uriah Hunt Painter Papers

Unbound Documents: Unbound Documents (1875-1877); Unbound Documents (1878); Unbound Documents (1879-1882); Unbound Documents (1884-1885); Unbound Documents (1886); Unbound Documents (1887); Unbound Documents (1888); Unbound Documents (1889); Unbound Documents (1890-1891)

Edison Speaking Phonograph Company Letterbooks: Edward H. Johnson Letterbook; Treasurer's Letterbook (March-August 1878); Treasurer's Letterbook (August-October 1878); Treasurer's Letterbook (November 1878-July 1879); Phonograph Agency Letterbook (May-July 1878); Phonograph Agency Letterbook (July-August 1878); Phonograph Agency Letterbook (August-September 1878)

Edison Speaking Phonograph Company Scrapbooks (Incoming Correspondence)

Miscellaneous Collections

Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Cal. -- Department of Manuscripts

Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. -- Lilly Library -- Manuscripts Department

Lafayette Manuscripts

Institution of Electrical Engineers Archives, London, UK

William H. Preece Papers

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. -- Milton S. Eisenhower Library -- Special Collections

Henry Augustus Rowland Papers: Correspondence; Menlo Park Notebook #62 (1880)

Jones Library, Inc., Amherst, Mass.

Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kan. -- Library and Archives Division

Lehigh University Library, Bethlehem, Pa. -- Special Collections

Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Can.

Joseph Hickson fonds (MG29 A29, Vol. 1)

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. -- Manuscript Division

Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers

William A. Benney Papers

Benjamin F. Butler Papers

Joseph H. Choate Papers

William A. Croffut Papers

Josephus Daniels Papers

Robert G. Ingersoll Papers

Simon Newcomb Papers

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection -- Thomas A. Edison Folder

Loyola University Chicago Archives, Chicago, Ill.

Samuel Insull Records

Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass.

Norcross Collection

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, Cambridge, Mass. -- Institute Archives and Special Collections

Dugald Caleb Jackson Papers

Records of the Office of the President

William Barton Rogers Papers

McGill University Libraries, Montreal, Canada -- Rare Books & Special Collections Division

Metropolitan Opera Archives, New York, N.Y.

Directors' Minutes

Middleton Place Foundation, Charleston, S.C.

Henry Middleton (1851-1932) Papers

Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis Mo.

William K. Bixby Papers -- Authors File

David R. Francis Papers

Francis E. Nipher Papers

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Records of the United States Senate (Record Group 46) -- Petitions and Memorials, Select Committee on Quadro-Centennials, World Exposition

General Records of the Department of State (Record Group 59) -- Passport Applications

General Records of the Department of the Navy (Record Group 80)

Records of the National Bureau of Standards (Record Group 167)

Records of the Patent and Trademark Office (Record Group 241)

Caveats: District and Alarm Telegraphs; Transmitting and Recording Letters or Characters; Transmitting and Recording Letters or Characters; Electric Circuits; Duplex Telegraphs; Solutions for Preparing Chemical Paper; Duplex Telegraphs; Circuits for Automatic Telegraphs; Quadruplex Telegraphs; Quadruplex Telegraphs; Duplex Telegraphs; Duplex Telegraphs; Quadruplex Telegraphs; Quadruplex Telegraphs; Duplex Telegraph; Quadruplex Telegraphs; Quadruplex Telegraph; Quadruplex Telegraphs; Accumulators for Telegraphing; Telegraphic Transmitting and Receiving Apparatus for Cables; Automatic Telegraphs; Automatic Telegraphs; Quadruplex Telegraph; Chemical Duplex and Quadruplex Telegraphs; Electro Magnetic Paper Perforators for Autographic Writing; Autographic Printing; Autographic Telegraphs; Acoustic Telegraph Apparatus; Duplex Telegraphs; Multiplex Telegraphs; Multiplex Telegraphs; Acoustic Telegraphs; Multiplex Telegraphs; Multiplex Telegraphs; Acoustic Transfer Telegraph; Electric Lights; Electric Lights; Telephones; Conductors and Apparatus for Electric Lights; Electric Lights and Method of Treating Platina and Other Metals; Electric Lights; Electric Lights; Regulators for Magneto or Dynamo Electric Generators and Engines; Regulators for Magneto or Dynamo Electric Generators and Engines; Electric Lamps; Electric Meters; Incandescing Electric Lamps; Meters for Measuring Electricity; Method and Apparatus for Separating Ores; Phonographs [Ore Separation, Kinetoscope, Electric Lighting, Miscellaneous]; Phonographs [Ore Separation, Electric Lighting, Battery, Miscellaneous]; Phonographs [Ore Separation, Kinetoscope, Electric Lighting, Miscellaneous]; Phonographs [Electric Lighting, Kinetoscope, Electric Railway, Miscellaneous]; Phonographs [Electric Lighting, Miscellaneous]; Manufacture of Iron; Manufacture of Iron; Transmission of Power

Patent Applications: Patent Application Files; Argument of Thomas L. Clingman

Libers of Patent Assignments: Stockbroker Printing Instrument; Automatic Printing Telegraph; Indicating Fire Alarm Telegraph; Electrographic Vote Recording and Registering Apparatus; Electromagnetic Printing Telegraphs; Improved Magnetograph; Improved Magnetograph; Electrical Printing Instrument; Automatic Electrical Switches; Electrical Printing Instrument; Automatic Telegraphy; Autographic Printing; Electrical Pen and Duplicating Press; Prospectus & Incorporation Papers: Edison's Electric Pen & Duplicating Press Co.

Digest of Patent Assignments: Assignments

Patent Interference Files

Edison and Nicholson: Preliminary Statement of Nicholson; Testimony and Exhibits on Behalf of Edison

Edison v. Short: Testimony and Exhibits on Behalf of Edison; Brief for Edison on Appeal

Maxim v. Edison: Brief for Edison on Appeal; Reply for Edison

Sawyer & Man v. Edison: Testimony on Behalf of Edison; Brief and Argument for Edison on Appeal; Brief and Argument for Edison on Motion for Rehearing

Boehm v. Edison: Preliminary Statement of Boehm; Preliminary Statement of Edison; Proofs for Boehm; Testimony on Behalf of Edison; Rebutting Testimony on Behalf of Boehm; Sur-Rebutting Testimony on Behalf of Edison; Decision

Weston v. Latimer v. Edison: Testimony and Exhibits on Behalf of Edison; Brief for Edison on Appeal

Edison v. Lane v. Gray et al.: Preliminary Statements and Testimony on Behalf of Edison; Brief for Edison; Brief for Edison on Appeal

Sprague v. Edison: Testimony on Behalf of Edison

Edison v. Maxim v. Swan: Testimony and Exhibits on Behalf of Edison; Testimony on Behalf of Swan

Edison v. Dickerson: Testimony and Exhibits on Behalf of Edison

Edison & Gilliland v. Phelps: Testimony on Behalf of Edison

Edison v. Thomson: Testimony on Behalf of Edison; Brief for Edison

Zipernowsky v. Edison: Testimony on Behalf of Edison; Exhibit; Brief for Edison; Supplemental Brief for Edison on Appeal

Chinnock v. Edison v. Wheeler: Testimony on Behalf of Edison

Ball v. Edison: Brief for Edison on Appeal

National Archives, Northeast Region, New York, N.Y.

Records of the District Courts of the United States (Record Group 21): George Harrington et al. v. Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co. et al.; -- Summary of the Case; -- Pleadings, Testimony and Proofs for Complainants for Final Hearing; -- Testimony and Proofs for Defendants for Final Hearing; -- Testimony and Proofs for Complainants in Rebuttal for Final Hearing; -- Testimony before the Master

National Archives, Northeast Region, Waltham, Mass.

Records of the District Courts of the United States (Record Group 21): Welch v. Edison Case #1995

Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C.

ZB Collection, Thomas A. Edison File

Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, Neb.

Elizabeth Gaylord Rathburn Collection (RG 1351)

New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, N.H.

New Jersey Department of State, Trenton, N.J. -- Division of Archives & Records Management

New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, N.J.

Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders Committee on Buildings (MG 834)

Francis Robbins Upton Scrapbooks (MG 988)

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

Edward Weston Papers

New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, N.Y.

New York County Division of Old Records, New York, N.Y.

New-York Historical Society, New York, N.Y.

Lefferts Papers

New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. -- Manuscripts and Archives Division

Richard Rogers Bowker Papers

Henry and Mary Anna Palmer Draper Papers

Frank J. Sprague Papers

New York Stock Exchange Archives, New York, N.Y.

Committee on Arrangements Records

New York University, New York, N.Y. -- Bobst Library -- University Archives

Niagara Mohawk, Syracuse, N.Y.

Thomas Edison Document

North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, N.C.

Reginald A. Fessenden Papers

Ohio Historical Society, Columbus. Ohio

Peabody Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. -- Phillips Library

Rice Family Papers

Philadelphia City Archives, Philadelphia, Pa.

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, N.Y.

Herbert L. Satterlee Papers

J. Pierpont Morgan Letterpress Books

Port Huron Museum, Port Huron, Mich.

Post Office Archives, London, UK

Princeton University Libraries, Princeton, N.J. -- Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Hyatt and Mayer Correspondence

Otto H. Kahn Papers

Booth Tarkington Papers

Henry Van Dyke Papers

General Manuscripts Miscellaneous

Public Record Office, London, UK

Records of the Supreme Court of Judicature and Related Courts (J17/319)

Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.

Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, N.J. -- Special Collections and University Archives

Records of the Philoclean Society of Rutgers College

Museum of Innovation and Science (miSci), Schenectady, N.Y.

Edison and the Advent of Electricity

Science Museum, London, U.K.

Registry, Nominal File 614

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. -- National Museum of American History

Archives Center: William J. Hammer Collection; -- Reminiscences; -- Correspondence (1879-1930); -- Notes and Drawings (1879-1887); -- Menlo Park -- Pocket Notebook (1880); -- Menlo Park -- Pocket Notebook (1882); -- Menlo Park -- Unbound Documents (1879-1889); -- Holborn Viaduct -- Pocket Notebook (1881-1882); -- Holborn Viaduct -- Notebook No. 8 (1882); -- Holborn Viaduct -- Unbound Documents (1881-1882); -- Pearl Street Station (1881-1882); -- Paris Exhibitions (1881, 1889) -- Printed Material; -- Paris Exhibition (1889) --Letterbook; -- Pocket Notebook (1893); -- Letterbooks (1903-1904); -- Photographs [not selected]; Joseph Henry Papers; Office of the Secretary Records; Charles Sumner Tainter Papers; Western Union Telegraph Company Records; --Correspondence and Other Unbound Documents; --Minute Books; --Letterbooks

Dibner Library: Edison Manuscripts

Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Cal.-- Special Collections

Julian P. Linke Collection

Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, N.Y. -- Department of Special Collections

Bertie C. Forbes Papers; Brisbane Family Papers; James Earle Fraser Papers

University of California, Berkeley, Cal. -- The Bancroft Library

Mexia Family Papers (M-B 1)

Zoe Green Radcliffe Papers (73/186c)

Mark Twain Papers

University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Cal. -- University Library

Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory

University of Exeter Library, Exeter, UK

J. Norman Lockyer Archive

University of Maryland, College Park, Md. -- Library of American Broadcasting

BMI Collection

University of Pennsylvania Archives, Philadelphia, Pa.

George F. Barker Papers

University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. -- Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Tenn. -- University Archives and Special Collections

University of Vermont Library, Burlington, Vt. -- Special Collections

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. -- Special Collections

Papers of John Skelton Williams (#10040); James Waldo Fawcett Collection (#9831), the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. -- Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Special Collections

Edward Mims Papers

Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.

Robert Lee Traylor Papers; Williams Family Papers

Webb Shadle Memorial Library, Pleasantville, Iowa

Americana Collection

Wesleyan University Library, Middleton, Conn. -- Special Collections & Archives

Wichita State University, Wichita, Kan. -- Special Collections, University Libraries

Thomas A. Edison Early Corporation Documents: Correspondence and Memoranda

Technical Notes and Drawings: Notebook (1880); Notebook (1891-1892); Arc Lighting Systems and Bi-polar Motors (1891-1893)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisc.

Halbert Louis Hoard Papers; John Mandt Nelson Papers

Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn. -- Manuscripts and Archives

George Miller Beard Papers

Chauncey Mitchell Depew Papers

Charles Dewey Hilles Papers

Othniel Charles Marsh Papers

Joseph Bradley Murray Papers

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

AUCTION HOUSES, DEALERS, ONLINE RESOURCES, AND PRIVATE COLLECTORS

The individuals and dealers listed below were the owners or custodians of the documents at the time copies were acquired by the Thomas A. Edison Papers and are not necessarily the present owners. Some collections do not yet have links as they are still being added to the digital image edition.

Robert Brisbane Papers

Mary Cicero Collection, Windsor, Ct.

Daniel Del Bagno Collection, Millstone, N.J

Maurice Fox Papers

Joseph De Mott Fredericks Collection

Gallery of History, Las Vegas, Nev.

Harvey Garrett Collection, Port Jefferson, N.Y.

Charles Hamilton Galleries, Inc., New York, N.Y.

Sherwood Troop Moore Papers

Ann A. Hardy Collection, Rindge, N.H.

Jeff Hardy Collection, Gaithersburg, Md.

Robert Harned Collection, Woodbridge, N.J.

Bob Harr Collection, Horsham, Pa.

Ellen Hartshorne Collection, Philadelphia, Pa.

James A. Hayes Collection, Lafayette, La.

David Heitz Collection, New Hope, Pa.

Gary Hendershott Collection, Little Rock, Ark.

Menlo Park Notebook #144 (1881)

Ernest Hodgdon Collection, Derry, N. H.

Charles Hummel Collection, Wayne, N.J.

Edison Wartime Research Reports: Experiment Lists and Memoirs; General; No. 1: Extension Ladder; No. 2: Low Visibility Sight Sensitiveness; No. 3: Smudging Periscopes; No. 4: Turbine Head for Projectile; No. 5: Smoke Smudge; No. 6: Phono. Range Finder; No. 7: Smudging Periscopes; No. 8: Preserving Submarine Guns; No. 9: Coast Protection from Submarines -- Submarine Detection; No. 10: Ship Telephones; No. 11: Searchlight; No. 12: Putting Out Fires; No. 13: Phono. Range Finder; No. 14: Absorption of Light by Sea Water; No. 15: Fluoroscope Observer; No. 16: Torpedo Power; No. 17: Mirror Reflection System; No. 18: Smudging Periscopes; No. 19: Splash Observers -- Device for; No. 20: Under Water Search Light; No. 21: Rod Torpedoes to Penetrate Submarines; No. 22: Splash Observers -- Device for; No. 23: Range Finder -- To Keep Free from Spray; No. 24: Aeroplane Bomb; No. 25: Induction Balance; No. 26: Secret Wireless; No. 27: Preliminary Report on Submarine Detection; No. 28: Splash -- Distance; No. 29: Submarine Buoy for Coast Patrol; No. 30: Submarine Stability; No. 31: Submarine Detection (Resonator); No. 32: Mercury Column for Wireless; No. 33: Smudging Periscopes with Special Projectile; No. 34: Nitrogen from the Air; No. 35: Night Glass; No. 36: Observing Periscope in Silhouette; No. 37: Obstructing Torpedoes with Net; No. 38: Searchlight Shutter; No. 39: Aeroplane Detector; No. 40: Concealing Merchant Ships from Submarines; No. 41: Oleum Bombs; No. 42: Mining Zeebrugge Harbor; No. 43: Fixing Cunard Ships -- Burning Anthracite &c.; No. 44: Water Brake [Sea Anchor] -- Hearing Torpedo &c.; No. 45: Hydrogen Detector; No. 46: Strategic Plans -- Great Britain and France; No. 47: Strategic Plans -- United States [not selected]; No. 48: Observing Periscopes [not selected]; No. 49: Zigzagging [not selected]; No. 50: Destroying Periscopes with Machine Guns; No. 51: Reducing Rolling of Warships; No. 52: Taking Cargo Boats Out of Mined Harbors; No. 53: Sea Anchor; No. 54: Collision Mats; No. 55: Sweeping Harbor of Mines; No. 56: Soundings Cartridges; No. 57: Reacting Shell; [Lloyd N. Scott's Naval Consulting Board of the United States]

Henry Alden Clark Papers

John F. Ott Notebook

Unbound Documents

Jessie B. Kent Collection, Lakeland, Fla.

William C. Lang Papers

Raymond Lawing Collection, Baltimore, Md.

H. W. Lende Jr. Collection, San Antonio, Tex.

Suzanne H. Meegan Collection, Warwick, R.I. added July 2010

Pusey Bancroft Heald Papers

Scott C. Moses Collection, Rapid City, S.D. added July 2010

Michael Pritchard Collection, Cardiff, Wales

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

The Raab Collection, Ardmore, Pa.

John W. Lystrup Papers

Joseph R. Sakmyster Collection, Rochester, N.Y.

Alvin J. Salkind Collection added July 2010

Notes by Thomas A. Edison

Scrapbook -- Submarine Storage Batteries

Edison Storage Battery Co. Reports

Edison Chemical Works

David E. E. Sloane Collection, New Haven, Conn. see Family Records Series

D. M. Smith Collection, Mundelein, Illinois

David E. Hughes Papers

Shirley J. Smith Collection, Falls Church, Va. added July 2010

Sotheby's, New York, N.Y.

Debera Fulstone Spear Collection, Las Vegas, Nev. added July 2010

Frank D. Fagan Papers

Michael Stas Collection, Elizabeth, N.J.

Meyer Strell Papers

George E. Stringfellow Collection, Arlington, Va.

Swann Galleries, Inc., New York, N.Y.

Family Correspondence and Related Documents

Notes and Drawings by Edison

Essay by Edison

Edison Family Reminiscences

Claude Azell Prince Jr. Papers

Godfrey J. Taylor Collection, West Orange, N.J.

Charles Teeple Collection, Jeffersonville, Ind.

Barbara Werle Collection, Grand Isle, Vt.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, Cal. -- Margaret Herrick Library

Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Washington, D.C.

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, N.Y.

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.

American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md. -- Center for the History of Physics -- Niels Bohr Library

American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia, Pa.

Simon Flexner Papers

James B. Murphy Papers

William J. Robbins Papers

Elihu Thomson Papers

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio

Archives Nationales, Paris, France

AT&T Archives, Warren, N.J.

Emile Berliner Correspondence

Francis Blake Correspondence

George H. Bliss Correspondence

Thomas E. Cornish Collection

Thomas B. A. David Correspondence

Thomas A. Edison Files: Exhibitions and Demonstrations; Experiments and Inventions; Patents; Miscellaneous

Edison Speaking Phonograph Company Records: Correspondence; Printed Materials

General Manager's Letterbooks

Gardiner G. Hubbard Correspondence

James J. Storrow Collection

Thomas A. Watson Correspondence

Western Electric Manufacturing Company Records: Agreements and Correspondence; Technical Notes and Drawings

Western Union Records

Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass. -- Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts

Brown University, Providence, R.I. -- The John Hay Library

Kenneth P. Whiting Papers

BT Archives, London, UK

Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Charles Darwin Archive

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa. -- Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

Centre Canadien d'Architecture, Montreal, Canada

Centro Cultural Alfa, Monterrey, Mexico

Charles Edison Fund Collection, Newark, N.J. see Family Records Series

Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, N.Y. see Family Records Series

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Frederic Allen Whiting Correspondence

Columbia University, New York, N.Y. -- Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Thomas A. Edison Papers

Cornell University Library, Ithaca, N.Y. -- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Jared T. Newman Papers

Robert H. Thurston Papers

Andrew D. White Papers

Dartmouth College Library, Hanover, N.H. -- Special Collections: Archives, Manuscripts, Rare Books

Percy W. MacKaye Papers

Charles A. Young Papers

Denver Public Library, Denver, Col. -- Western History/Genealogy Department

Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Mich.

Robert M. Zug Papers

Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. -- Boyd Lee Spahr Library Special Collections

Edison-Ford Winter Estates, Fort Myers, Fla. see Family Records Series

Essex County Hall of Records, Newark, N.J.

Office of the County Clerk -- Records of the Circuit Court

Office of the County Register of Deeds and Mortgages

Filson Club Historical Society, Louisville, Ky.

Frederick Royce Papers

Foundation of the Postal and Telecommunication Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Theodore Puskas Papers

Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, Pa.

George Eastman House, Rochester, N. Y.

Georgetown University Library, Washington, D.C. -- Special Collections Division

Thomas Armat Papers

Terry Ramsaye Papers

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Del.

S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company Records

Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Baker Library: R. G. Dun Collection; Raff & Gammon Collection; Terry Ramsaye Collection; Henry Villard Papers

Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine: Papers

Houghton Library: Henry Villard Papers

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Research Center, Dearborn, Mich.

Edison Papers and Related Items

Series I: Manuscripts

Thomas Alva Edison Correspondence: Correspondence (1862-1885); Correspondence (1887-1908); Correspondence (1911-1920); Correspondence (1921-1927); Correspondence (1928-1937); Correspondence (undated)

Thomas A. Edison–Henry Ford Office Correspondence: Correspondence (1913-1914); Correspondence (1915); Correspondence (1916); Correspondence (1917); Correspondence (1918); Correspondence (1919); Correspondence (1920); Correspondence (1921); Correspondence (1922); Correspondence (1923); Correspondence (1924); Correspondence (1925); Correspondence (1926); Correspondence (1927); Correspondence (1928); Correspondence (1929); Correspondence (1930); Correspondence (1931)

Thomas A. Edison Family Correspondence: Edison, Mina Miller; Oeser, Marion Edison; Edison, Thomas A., Jr., and Beatrice; Edison, William Leslie; Edison, Charles and Carolyn; Edison, Theodore M.; Edison, Samuel O.; Holzer, Alice Stilwell, and Family

General Correspondence and Reminiscences: Beach, Ralph H.; Bee, William G.; Brown, R.R.; Delany, Patrick B.; Devonshire, Robert W.; Dick, Albert B.; Ely, Robert E.; Greene, David M.; Gwynne, Charles T.; Johnson, Edward H.; Keefer, Samuel N.; Lonergan, John; Maisonville, Barnabe; McComas, Richard; Reynolds, W.C.; Richardson, T.A.; Sladen, Frank J.; Winters, Edward E.; Young, J.P.

Non-Correspondence

Series II: Thomas Alva Edison Notes, Drawings and Sketchbooks

Notebooks: Escapement Mechanisms (1872); Menlo Park Notebook #36 (1879); Storage Battery Notebook (1902); Unbound Notes and Drawings

Series III: Documents: Unbound Documents; Samuel Edison Expense Book

Series V: Edison Pioneers

Clarke, Charles L.

Unbound Documents

Notebooks

Electrical Experiments and Tests 1

Electrical Experiments and Tests 2

Electrical Experiments and Tests 3

Electrical Experiments and Tests 4

Electrical Light Meter 1

Electrical Light Meter 2

Electrical Light Meter 3

Electrical Light Meter 4

Electric Meters

Multiple Arc Distribution

Fibrous Carbon Arch Case 1

Fibrous Carbon Arch Case 2

Howell, John W.

Howell, Wilson: General; Letterbook; Pocket Notebook

Series VII: Printed Matter

Series X: Oversize Material

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

Uriah Hunt Painter Papers

Unbound Documents: Unbound Documents (1875-1877); Unbound Documents (1878); Unbound Documents (1879-1882); Unbound Documents (1884-1885); Unbound Documents (1886); Unbound Documents (1887); Unbound Documents (1888); Unbound Documents (1889); Unbound Documents (1890-1891)

Edison Speaking Phonograph Company Letterbooks: Edward H. Johnson Letterbook; Treasurer's Letterbook (March-August 1878); Treasurer's Letterbook (August-October 1878); Treasurer's Letterbook (November 1878-July 1879); Phonograph Agency Letterbook (May-July 1878); Phonograph Agency Letterbook (July-August 1878); Phonograph Agency Letterbook (August-September 1878)

Edison Speaking Phonograph Company Scrapbooks (Incoming Correspondence)

Miscellaneous Collections

Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Cal. -- Department of Manuscripts

Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. -- Lilly Library -- Manuscripts Department

Lafayette Manuscripts

Institution of Electrical Engineers Archives, London, UK

William H. Preece Papers

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. -- Milton S. Eisenhower Library -- Special Collections

Henry Augustus Rowland Papers: Correspondence; Menlo Park Notebook #62 (1880)

Jones Library, Inc., Amherst, Mass.

Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kan. -- Library and Archives Division

Lehigh University Library, Bethlehem, Pa. -- Special Collections

Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Can.

Joseph Hickson fonds (MG29 A29, Vol. 1)

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. -- Manuscript Division

Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers

William A. Benney Papers

Benjamin F. Butler Papers

Joseph H. Choate Papers

William A. Croffut Papers

Josephus Daniels Papers

Robert G. Ingersoll Papers

Simon Newcomb Papers

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection -- Thomas A. Edison Folder

Loyola University Chicago Archives, Chicago, Ill.

Samuel Insull Records

Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass.

Norcross Collection

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, Cambridge, Mass. -- Institute Archives and Special Collections

Dugald Caleb Jackson Papers

Records of the Office of the President

William Barton Rogers Papers

McGill University Libraries, Montreal, Canada -- Rare Books & Special Collections Division

Metropolitan Opera Archives, New York, N.Y.

Directors' Minutes

Middleton Place Foundation, Charleston, S.C.

Henry Middleton (1851-1932) Papers

Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis Mo.

William K. Bixby Papers -- Authors File

David R. Francis Papers

Francis E. Nipher Papers

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Records of the United States Senate (Record Group 46) -- Petitions and Memorials, Select Committee on Quadro-Centennials, World Exposition

General Records of the Department of State (Record Group 59) -- Passport Applications

General Records of the Department of the Navy (Record Group 80)

Records of the National Bureau of Standards (Record Group 167)

Records of the Patent and Trademark Office (Record Group 241)

Caveats: District and Alarm Telegraphs; Transmitting and Recording Letters or Characters; Transmitting and Recording Letters or Characters; Electric Circuits; Duplex Telegraphs; Solutions for Preparing Chemical Paper; Duplex Telegraphs; Circuits for Automatic Telegraphs; Quadruplex Telegraphs; Quadruplex Telegraphs; Duplex Telegraphs; Duplex Telegraphs; Quadruplex Telegraphs; Quadruplex Telegraphs; Duplex Telegraph; Quadruplex Telegraphs; Quadruplex Telegraph; Quadruplex Telegraphs; Accumulators for Telegraphing; Telegraphic Transmitting and Receiving Apparatus for Cables; Automatic Telegraphs; Automatic Telegraphs; Quadruplex Telegraph; Chemical Duplex and Quadruplex Telegraphs; Electro Magnetic Paper Perforators for Autographic Writing; Autographic Printing; Autographic Telegraphs; Acoustic Telegraph Apparatus; Duplex Telegraphs; Multiplex Telegraphs; Multiplex Telegraphs; Acoustic Telegraphs; Multiplex Telegraphs; Multiplex Telegraphs; Acoustic Transfer Telegraph; Electric Lights; Electric Lights; Telephones; Conductors and Apparatus for Electric Lights; Electric Lights and Method of Treating Platina and Other Metals; Electric Lights; Electric Lights; Regulators for Magneto or Dynamo Electric Generators and Engines; Regulators for Magneto or Dynamo Electric Generators and Engines; Electric Lamps; Electric Meters; Incandescing Electric Lamps; Meters for Measuring Electricity; Method and Apparatus for Separating Ores; Phonographs [Ore Separation, Kinetoscope, Electric Lighting, Miscellaneous]; Phonographs [Ore Separation, Electric Lighting, Battery, Miscellaneous]; Phonographs [Ore Separation, Kinetoscope, Electric Lighting, Miscellaneous]; Phonographs [Electric Lighting, Kinetoscope, Electric Railway, Miscellaneous]; Phonographs [Electric Lighting, Miscellaneous]; Manufacture of Iron; Manufacture of Iron; Transmission of Power

Patent Applications: Patent Application Files; Argument of Thomas L. Clingman

Libers of Patent Assignments: Stockbroker Printing Instrument; Automatic Printing Telegraph; Indicating Fire Alarm Telegraph; Electrographic Vote Recording and Registering Apparatus; Electromagnetic Printing Telegraphs; Improved Magnetograph; Improved Magnetograph; Electrical Printing Instrument; Automatic Electrical Switches; Electrical Printing Instrument; Automatic Telegraphy; Autographic Printing; Electrical Pen and Duplicating Press; Prospectus & Incorporation Papers: Edison's Electric Pen & Duplicating Press Co.

Digest of Patent Assignments: Assignments

Patent Interference Files

Edison and Nicholson: Preliminary Statement of Nicholson; Testimony and Exhibits on Behalf of Edison

Edison v. Short: Testimony and Exhibits on Behalf of Edison; Brief for Edison on Appeal

Maxim v. Edison: Brief for Edison on Appeal; Reply for Edison

Sawyer & Man v. Edison: Testimony on Behalf of Edison; Brief and Argument for Edison on Appeal; Brief and Argument for Edison on Motion for Rehearing

Boehm v. Edison: Preliminary Statement of Boehm; Preliminary Statement of Edison; Proofs for Boehm; Testimony on Behalf of Edison; Rebutting Testimony on Behalf of Boehm; Sur-Rebutting Testimony on Behalf of Edison; Decision

Weston v. Latimer v. Edison: Testimony and Exhibits on Behalf of Edison; Brief for Edison on Appeal

Edison v. Lane v. Gray et al.: Preliminary Statements and Testimony on Behalf of Edison; Brief for Edison; Brief for Edison on Appeal

Sprague v. Edison: Testimony on Behalf of Edison

Edison v. Maxim v. Swan: Testimony and Exhibits on Behalf of Edison; Testimony on Behalf of Swan

Edison v. Dickerson: Testimony and Exhibits on Behalf of Edison

Edison & Gilliland v. Phelps: Testimony on Behalf of Edison

Edison v. Thomson: Testimony on Behalf of Edison; Brief for Edison

Zipernowsky v. Edison: Testimony on Behalf of Edison; Exhibit; Brief for Edison; Supplemental Brief for Edison on Appeal

Chinnock v. Edison v. Wheeler: Testimony on Behalf of Edison

Ball v. Edison: Brief for Edison on Appeal

National Archives, Northeast Region, New York, N.Y.

Records of the District Courts of the United States (Record Group 21): George Harrington et al. v. Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co. et al.; -- Summary of the Case; -- Pleadings, Testimony and Proofs for Complainants for Final Hearing; -- Testimony and Proofs for Defendants for Final Hearing; -- Testimony and Proofs for Complainants in Rebuttal for Final Hearing; -- Testimony before the Master

National Archives, Northeast Region, Waltham, Mass.

Records of the District Courts of the United States (Record Group 21): Welch v. Edison Case #1995

Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C.

ZB Collection, Thomas A. Edison File

Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, Neb.

Elizabeth Gaylord Rathburn Collection (RG 1351)

New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, N.H.

New Jersey Department of State, Trenton, N.J. -- Division of Archives & Records Management

New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, N.J.

Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders Committee on Buildings (MG 834)

Francis Robbins Upton Scrapbooks (MG 988)

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

Edward Weston Papers

New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, N.Y.

New York County Division of Old Records, New York, N.Y.

New-York Historical Society, New York, N.Y.

Lefferts Papers

New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. -- Manuscripts and Archives Division

Richard Rogers Bowker Papers

Henry and Mary Anna Palmer Draper Papers

Frank J. Sprague Papers

New York Stock Exchange Archives, New York, N.Y.

Committee on Arrangements Records

New York University, New York, N.Y. -- Bobst Library -- University Archives

Niagara Mohawk, Syracuse, N.Y.

Thomas Edison Document

North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, N.C.

Reginald A. Fessenden Papers

Ohio Historical Society, Columbus. Ohio

Peabody Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. -- Phillips Library

Rice Family Papers

Philadelphia City Archives, Philadelphia, Pa.

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, N.Y.

Herbert L. Satterlee Papers

J. Pierpont Morgan Letterpress Books

Port Huron Museum, Port Huron, Mich.

Post Office Archives, London, UK

Princeton University Libraries, Princeton, N.J. -- Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Hyatt and Mayer Correspondence

Otto H. Kahn Papers

Booth Tarkington Papers

Henry Van Dyke Papers

General Manuscripts Miscellaneous

Public Record Office, London, UK

Records of the Supreme Court of Judicature and Related Courts (J17/319)

Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.

Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, N.J. -- Special Collections and University Archives

Records of the Philoclean Society of Rutgers College

Museum of Innovation and Science (miSci), Schenectady, N.Y.

Edison and the Advent of Electricity

Science Museum, London, U.K.

Registry, Nominal File 614

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. -- National Museum of American History

Archives Center: William J. Hammer Collection; -- Reminiscences; -- Correspondence (1879-1930); -- Notes and Drawings (1879-1887); -- Menlo Park -- Pocket Notebook (1880); -- Menlo Park -- Pocket Notebook (1882); -- Menlo Park -- Unbound Documents (1879-1889); -- Holborn Viaduct -- Pocket Notebook (1881-1882); -- Holborn Viaduct -- Notebook No. 8 (1882); -- Holborn Viaduct -- Unbound Documents (1881-1882); -- Pearl Street Station (1881-1882); -- Paris Exhibitions (1881, 1889) -- Printed Material; -- Paris Exhibition (1889) --Letterbook; -- Pocket Notebook (1893); -- Letterbooks (1903-1904); -- Photographs [not selected]; Joseph Henry Papers; Office of the Secretary Records; Charles Sumner Tainter Papers; Western Union Telegraph Company Records; --Correspondence and Other Unbound Documents; --Minute Books; --Letterbooks

Dibner Library: Edison Manuscripts

Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Cal.-- Special Collections

Julian P. Linke Collection

Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, N.Y. -- Department of Special Collections

Bertie C. Forbes Papers; Brisbane Family Papers; James Earle Fraser Papers

University of California, Berkeley, Cal. -- The Bancroft Library

Mexia Family Papers (M-B 1)

Zoe Green Radcliffe Papers (73/186c)

Mark Twain Papers

University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Cal. -- University Library

Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory

University of Exeter Library, Exeter, UK

J. Norman Lockyer Archive

University of Maryland, College Park, Md. -- Library of American Broadcasting

BMI Collection

University of Pennsylvania Archives, Philadelphia, Pa.

George F. Barker Papers

University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. -- Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, Tenn. -- University Archives and Special Collections

University of Vermont Library, Burlington, Vt. -- Special Collections

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. -- Special Collections

Papers of John Skelton Williams (#10040); James Waldo Fawcett Collection (#9831), the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. -- Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Special Collections

Edward Mims Papers

Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.

Robert Lee Traylor Papers; Williams Family Papers

Webb Shadle Memorial Library, Pleasantville, Iowa

Americana Collection

Wesleyan University Library, Middleton, Conn. -- Special Collections & Archives

Wichita State University, Wichita, Kan. -- Special Collections, University Libraries

Thomas A. Edison Early Corporation Documents: Correspondence and Memoranda

Technical Notes and Drawings: Notebook (1880); Notebook (1891-1892); Arc Lighting Systems and Bi-polar Motors (1891-1893)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisc.

Halbert Louis Hoard Papers; John Mandt Nelson Papers

Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn. -- Manuscripts and Archives

George Miller Beard Papers

Chauncey Mitchell Depew Papers

Charles Dewey Hilles Papers

Othniel Charles Marsh Papers

Joseph Bradley Murray Papers

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

AUCTION HOUSES, DEALERS, ONLINE RESOURCES, AND PRIVATE COLLECTORS

The individuals and dealers listed below were the owners or custodians of the documents at the time copies were acquired by the Thomas A. Edison Papers and are not necessarily the present owners.

Robert Brisbane Papers

Mary Cicero Collection, Windsor, Ct.

Daniel Del Bagno Collection, Millstone, N.J

Maurice Fox Papers

Joseph De Mott Fredericks Collection

Gallery of History, Las Vegas, Nev.

Harvey Garrett Collection, Port Jefferson, N.Y.

Charles Hamilton Galleries, Inc., New York, N.Y.