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CONTENT:
The site is a joint effort of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, and others to organize and publish the papers of this well-known inventor.
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AESTHETICS:
This bare-bones site has predominantly text. The documents open in frames, which makes reading them a little difficult.
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ORGANIZATION:
The offerings are categorized and listed in an index on the front page of the site. Users can search the collection by name, date, and document type or by folder/document descriptions. The site provides directions for searching.
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REVIEW:
Anyone interested in researching Thomas A. Edison will find this a great place to begin. This digitized document database includes clippings, patents, and a document sampler that covers Edison's life from 1847-1898. Other resources such as chronologies, bibliographies, motion picture catalogs and maps and images from Edison's early life are also available. Plans are in the works to include the full text of all the print volumes of the papers.
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Reviewed by Hazel Jobe
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2/28/2002
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