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SIGNED BY NOTABLES AT ELECTRIC LIGHT'S GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATION (INVENTORS.) EDISON, THOMAS A.; AND HENRY FORD. Photograph postcard Signed by both (ThosAEdison" and "Henry Ford"), as well as by Orville Wright (in pencil), Herbert Hoover, as President, and 24 others, showing Edison and Ford in 1928 conversing at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI. Signed on correspondence side, a few vertically or diagonally. Oblong 12mo, with 2-cent "Electric Light's Golden Jubilee" postage stamp at upper right, uncancelled but parts of the signatures of Thomas and Mina Edison written over stamp. [Dearborn, 22 October 1929]
Thomas A. Edison • Henry Ford • Orville Wright • Herbert Hoover • Will Rogers • John D. Rockefeller, Jr • Edwin W. Rice, Jr • Adolph Ochs • Owen D. Young • Frederick A. Scheffler • George F. Morrison • John Kruesi • Paul John Kruesi • Jesse R. Lovejoy • Burton G. Tremaine • Lee de Forest • Charles F. Burgess • John V. Miller • George Foster Peabody • Ann G. Shankey • Mildred Hall • Clara B. Ford • Mina M. Edison • Theodore M. Edison • Madeleine Edison Sloane • Ann O. Edison • William Wallace Nichols • Mary Miller Nichols. On October 21, 1929--the 50th anniversary of Edison's incandescent light bulb--a celebration was held at the old Thomas Edison Institute in Dearborn, MI. In addition to commemorating the golden jubilee of the electric light, the celebration served as the dedication ceremony of Henry Ford's Greenfield Village, which would occupy some of the same buildings as Edison's former Institute. Several celebrities attended the celebration, including those who signed the postcard in the present lot. A week after signing, the stock market crash on Black Tuesday dampened the jovial atmosphere of technological achievement, setting in motion what became the Great Depression.
