According catalog card:
"Experimental concrete
casting.
Use EDIS collection. The plaster cast is
No.
WATER COOLER, light
colored metal base (right of
door, section 2)
Figure shows water
cooler with dark base,
inscribed "mountainside";
figure shows light
colored water cooler: "[—]
spring/[—] orange"; voucher
572, 1888.
Retain existing fixture and
acquire cups. Figure 65
documents ca. 26, 1945, cast the
same sculpture, white
plaster painted light
reddish tan, which said
had been made Billy
Holderson.
Use EDIS 676, photograph of
Edison lamp factory,
Harrison, NJ..
Acquire.
Framed PRINT (above door,
alcove section 2)
Figure (two unidentified
prints above door).
----,
Use EDIS 181.
238
.K Hamje, of
Thomas Edison, Inc.. 5047.
Mounted DISPLAY, primary
battery parts (on wall right
of door, below framed print
above, alcove section 2)
Figure 84.1912 location of
water cooler.
Framed PRINT (on wall to
right door, alcove section
2)
Figures (EDIS 676) and
84. H.,
brought the laboratory
Nov.)"
Use EDIS 182. (Mr.
PAPER CUP HOLDER with
PAPER CUPS (attached to
wall above water cooler,
section 2)
Physical evidence.PLAQUE Native American
profile, concrete (below light
switch, wall left door,
alcove section 2)
Figure 78;
Historian’s Note 121.About 15" wide, 16"
high, and 3-1/2" maximum
thickness. This one the
very few specimens known to
us resulting from Edison’s
experiments concrete
casting decorative art
objects.. Paymaster George
Meister advised that
Holderson had worked with
Edison the artistic angles
of the poured concrete house
project
