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[CA016-F] Menlo Park Manufacturing Co (1880)
This folder contains printed material issued by the Menlo Park Manufacturing Co. This company was organized in 1879 under the direction of Charles H. Lewis, Francis W. Jacobs, and William MacMahon. It was licensed to manufacture Edison's Polyform, a medicinal formula that the inventor tried unsuccessfully to patent. The company abandoned the manufacture of polyform about 1881 after the business proved unprofitable.
The following items have been selected:
Label from a bottle of Edison's Polyform (ca. 1880)
Advertising circular (ca. 1880)
Advertisement (Scribners, November 1880)
Advertisement (ca. 1880) [photocopy]
Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park.