An Album Given To Thomas Edison’s Daughter To Commemorate A Statue Of The Inventor Unveiled In Japan In 1966

Book Description

Archive. 1966. Japan. An archive of approximately thirty photographs given to Madeline Edison Sloane, the great inventor’s only daughter. It was given to her in 1966 to commemorate a Thomas Edison monument that was unveiled in Kyoto. The majority of the images are black and white photographs (mostly 5” x 7”) with typewritten captions underneath, such as “The statue viewed from one angle”, “Scene around the statue (at noon several days later)”, “Mr. K Matasushita unveils the statue of Thomas Alva Edison” and “Purification ceremony by a Shinto priest”. There are also three 8” x 10” color photographs of Mrs. Sloane in Japan for the ceremony. There is a March 10, 1966 typed letter signed “Yoshijiro Ishikawa” to Mrs. Sloane, stating “I am very glad to be able to inform you that 1966 Edison Birthday Celebration in Kyoto on Feb. 11 was very successful, and that today I send you some snapshots taken on that day by another mail. There ceremony was held in front of your Great Father’s monument at Iwashimuizu Hachimangu in Kyoto with presenting flowers, and after then we had a grand party with about two hundred or more in attendance at Central Electric Club on Osaka. I think the speeches delivered on the party, admiring and thinking of Father of Invention Thomas Alva Edison, were effective enough to stimulate young engineers and others. All snapshots, I suppose, were sent to Edison Foundation by Japan Electric Association which sponsored the celebration.” It appears that the statue was created for the Matsushita Electric Industrial Company which recently announced it will change its name to Panasonic. The album is in very fine condition with a needlepoint cover. Certainly a one of a kind Edison collectible.

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