.ve-header "Edison's Diary Exhibit" https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/iiif/MA036 "July 1885" pct:30,30,60,40 center sticky - Home - Introduction - Diary Entry 1 - Diary Entry 2 - Diary Entry 3 - Diary Entry 4 - Diary Entry 5 - Diary Entry 6 - Diary Entry 7 - Diary Entry 8 - Diary Entry 9 - Diary Entry 10

This site highlights Thomas Alva Edison's July 1885 Diary through IIIF image viewers, transcriptions and annotations. It is a collaboration between Edison Papers Director Paul Israel, interns Mia De Angelis and Katherine Little from the Rutgers Public History Certificate program, Nicole Wines and digital editor Erin Mustard, who help the project develop its digital and public humanities outreach. Click on the links below to read an Introduction to the diary and each of the ten Diary Entries.

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Read the Introduction

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Menlo Park, New Jersey, 12 July 1885

Diary Entry 2 {href=2}

Menlo Park, New Jersey, 13 July 1885

Diary Entry 3 {href=3}

Woodside Villa, Boston Harbor, 14 July, 1885

Diary Entry 4 {href=4}

Woodside Villa, Boston Harbor, 15 July, 1885

Diary Entry 5 {href=5}

Woodside Villa, Boston Harbor, 16 July, 1885

Diary Entry 6 {href=6}

Woodside Villa, Boston Harbor, 17 July, 1885

Diary Entry 7 {href=7}

Woodside Villa, Boston Harbor, 18 July, 1885

Diary Entry 8 {href=8}

Woodside Villa, Boston Harbor, 19 July, 1885

Diary Entry 9 {href=9}

Woodside Villa, Boston Harbor, 20 July, 1885

Diary Entry 10 {href=10}

Woodside Villa, Boston Harbor, 21 July, 1885