These notes, compiled 5-by-8-inch notecards
and filed numerically, were made Norman Speiden and cover a
wide variety subjects. This collection contains purchase vouchers for
all expenditures the West Orange laboratory from 1887 through
the 1930s. The invoices provide the vendor’s
name and type business, date transaction, description of
purchase, and purchase price. The majority the entries are from the period 1907 to
1915.
Edison Pioneers Collection.
Jones, chief personnel Thomas Edison, Inc. Each was given number which expenses
could allocated account.
Batchelor Diaries.
Shop Orders.notebooks.
Voucher Collection. from 1916 to
1921. This group records was collected Mark M. Each applicant filed biography and these
forms, with supplemental material, are filed alphabetically. The distribution labor
worksheets provide good breakdown the laboratory work force. They are arranged chronologically and dated the first
written date the book. These orders were requests for work carried out
by the laboratory staff. These books cover all the accounts the
laboratory and come many forms.
Jones Collection. The shop orders are listed some
laboratory notebooks and descriptions the work sometimes appear
in accounts records. This the diary Miller Reese Hutchison, a
former chief engineer the laboratory and one Edison’s closest
associates. Vouchers indicate the amount paid and account charged
for items the attached invoices. Former Edison workers who wrote visited
the laboratory often gave information Speiden, which recorded
in note form.
Hutchison Diary.
7
. Vouchers cited evidence the
report are referred voucher number and year. The Edison Pioneers were formed by
old Edison associates. Many these books will filmed the
Edison Papers Project. These are the bound diaries Edison’s closest
associate, Charles Batchelor, the 1870s and 1880s.
Account Books.
Historian’s Notes
