Part Of: Document File Series -- 1887

[D8745-F] (D-87-45) Fort Myers

This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the maintenance of Seminole Lodge, Edison's winter home in Fort Myers, Florida. Included are property tax receipts; correspondence about the shipment of machinery to Fort Myers; and two undated ground plans of the Fort Myers property showing the location of Edison's residence and laboratory along with the residence of his associate Ezra T. Gilliland.

Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been selected. The following categories of documents have not been selected: routine correspondence pertaining to the shipment of equipment and supplies for the Fort Myers laboratory; bills of lading; routine receipts for labor and supplies for the properties owned by Edison and Gilliland.

Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park.

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