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