The train which brought President Hoover and Thomas A. Edison to the Light's Golden Jubilee
Category
Public Relations
Made/Created
Studio
Wide World Photos: Detroit Bureau
Notes
Date made: 17-Jul-30
Lexicon
Legacy Lexicon
Object Name
photograph
Location
* Untyped Location
black binder Edward Bernays
Deaccession
Notes
Stamp on reverse: Central Press Association, Reference Departmenrt. Copy on reverse: Memorabilia of the Past Century Preserved in Henry Ford's Early American Village of Greenfield. Greenfield, Mich. — A copy of the Rolling Laboratory of the Boy Inventor: The train which brought President Hoover and Thomas A. Edison to the Golden Jubilee of the Incandescent Lamp at Greenfield, Mich. last year. The locomotive is a brother of the Civil War locomotive "The General," and the baggage car is a fascimile of the one from which young Edison and his chemical were ejected after an experiment ended in fire. 7-16-30.
