This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to Edison's involvement in exhibitions, trade shows, anniversary celebrations, and meetings of electrical and other industries. Included are references to the Internationale Kinoindustrie Ausstellung in Budapest, Hungary. Edison agreed to become honorary president of the exhibition one month before the outbreak of World War I. There are also items pertaining to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco and the Cleveland Electrical Exposition. The correspondents include Edison associates Thomas Graf and J. M. Hill, as well as Charles C. Moore, president of the Panama Pacific Exposition.
Approximately 10 percent of the documents have been selected, including all items written by Edison or bearing substantive marginalia by him.
[E1440AB], Letter from Thomas Graf to Thomas Alva Edison, May 5th, 1914 1914-05-05