be Hepworth, who appears the January and February 1890
payroll records with helper, George Gilmore.
875 Laboratory Payroll, November 20, 1920-January 20, 1921; see also NPS, "Historic Furnishings Study,
Bldg.60 per
week. Hepworth earned $21. Blacksmith
' Shop" (1964); also NPS, "Historic Furnishings Study, Bldg. Two 1939 photographs document the appearance the shop at
that time. From November 1920
through January 1921, A.10.18 for the
week ending February and Gilmore earned $12. No.C. Blacksmith Shop," 4.676
Furnishings. Gunnerson and Peter
Deck, blacksmith, were working the blacksmith shop.
Voucher 3148 and others, 1903. Anderson was working blacksmith for $39.573 1903 appears if
Hepworth was business for himself, and the laboratory was one his
customers. The 1939 furnishings were cataloged July 1942, though many the
deteriorated expendable objects were discarded during 1969 restoration
effort.675
In 1964 interview, former Edison employee Paul Kasakove recalled that work in
the blacksmith shop ceased some time between 1927 and 1931.
\ 578 Conversations with Paul Kasakove, October 1963, NPS, "HSR-Part Bldg.Historical Occupancy.674
573 1890, WOL-General, D-90-64. The first blacksmith known work the West Orange
laboratory Ru. No.L. No.
577 NPS, "Historic Furnishings Study, Bldg. Little known about the interior appearance the early
blacksmith shops. Blacksmith Shop," 4. No.677
170
. Blacksmith Shop," 6,
By the period 1909-10, laboratory labor records note A
