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