[Exterior view of Thomas A. Edison's childhood home]
Photograph
[Exterior view of Thomas A. Edison's childhood home]
From the album [Snapshots from travels in the United States and Canada]
ca. 1920
Gelatin silver prints
Overall: 2 9/16 × 4 3/16 in. (6.5 × 10.6 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.1292.0051b
Inscriptions Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: The birthplace and home of Thomas A. Edison, Milan, Ohio. For two reasons I believe it was taken about 1920 by A. Thomas Nelson, when the Nelson's were in Norwalk, Ohio, (on the Conn. Western Reserve) where Mrs. Nelson had gone to see the family physician, Dr. Simmons, and was convalescing from a serious illness: also Mr. Nelson had at that time a 1A speed camera with focal plane shutter taking a picture up to 10000 of a second & which made a print this size. (3 1/4 x 4 1/4).
Dr. S.E. Simmons had been a schoolmate of Mr. & Mrs. Grant S. Price (Mrs. Price having been Dessie L. Stotts,) at Fairfield, Ohio. He practiced at Norwalk, and was on the staff of a Cleveland hospital, Lakeview, I believe but not certain. I often heard them phone him for consultation at his office. The photograph of this brilliant man is one I would like to have kept but placed it at the Fairfield Historical Society in Ohio, as he was born near Fairfield on a farm.
In earlier days when Mrs. Nelson was a child living in Norwalk, Ohio, there was an "electric line", a trolley, running between Norwalk and Sandusky. The interurban trolleys were extremely long to carry a maximum of passengers. As the Prices went frequently to Cedar Point across the bay from Sandusky, she remembers passing the Edison house, then going down the "terrible" Milan hill. The trolly tracks ran in front of the house at that time.
As Mr. & Mrs. Grant S. Price lived on Norwood Avenue in Norwalk, Mr. Edison frequently passed the house when visiting his niece, (a bit further out) Mr. Soyer,/in the summer. As a child, (Catherine (Kathryn) H. Price) I have often seen Mr. Edison & Mrs, Soyer walking downtown, she, always carrying a parasol as was then the style.
On the subject of parasols, Mrs. A. Thomas Nelson seemed to have had her three parasols from the B.C. Tabor store at Norwalk, Cor. Whitlesey Ave. & East Main St: her first small pink one, of satin & at about 4 years when pink is a heavenly color to a little girl; then the white silk a bit later, and finally when living in Cleveland for a time, the very unusual green, black & white one, unusually panneled and showing in one of the pictures of her taken about 1918.
Once on a return visit, about 1935, she went into the B.C. Tabor store for old times sake. She was on the second floor looking at some most attractive Numdah rugs when a young man came to wait on her. It proved to be the then owner, nephew of the former two brothers: she told him how one of his uncles always greeted people at the front of the store. It turned out that he had gone to the Univ. of Pa., so they were quite friends.
Re: parasols again. Mrs. Nelson, nee Catherine (Kathryn) H. Price was so pleased with her first (pink) parasol that she went into the living room on getting home, laid on the couch with the parasol raised and set over her and went to sleep.
Dr. S.E. Simmons had been a schoolmate of Mr. & Mrs. Grant S. Price (Mrs. Price having been Dessie L. Stotts,) at Fairfield, Ohio. He practiced at Norwalk, and was on the staff of a Cleveland hospital, Lakeview, I believe but not certain. I often heard them phone him for consultation at his office. The photograph of this brilliant man is one I would like to have kept but placed it at the Fairfield Historical Society in Ohio, as he was born near Fairfield on a farm.
In earlier days when Mrs. Nelson was a child living in Norwalk, Ohio, there was an "electric line", a trolley, running between Norwalk and Sandusky. The interurban trolleys were extremely long to carry a maximum of passengers. As the Prices went frequently to Cedar Point across the bay from Sandusky, she remembers passing the Edison house, then going down the "terrible" Milan hill. The trolly tracks ran in front of the house at that time.
As Mr. & Mrs. Grant S. Price lived on Norwood Avenue in Norwalk, Mr. Edison frequently passed the house when visiting his niece, (a bit further out) Mr. Soyer,/in the summer. As a child, (Catherine (Kathryn) H. Price) I have often seen Mr. Edison & Mrs, Soyer walking downtown, she, always carrying a parasol as was then the style.
On the subject of parasols, Mrs. A. Thomas Nelson seemed to have had her three parasols from the B.C. Tabor store at Norwalk, Cor. Whitlesey Ave. & East Main St: her first small pink one, of satin & at about 4 years when pink is a heavenly color to a little girl; then the white silk a bit later, and finally when living in Cleveland for a time, the very unusual green, black & white one, unusually panneled and showing in one of the pictures of her taken about 1918.
Once on a return visit, about 1935, she went into the B.C. Tabor store for old times sake. She was on the second floor looking at some most attractive Numdah rugs when a young man came to wait on her. It proved to be the then owner, nephew of the former two brothers: she told him how one of his uncles always greeted people at the front of the store. It turned out that he had gone to the Univ. of Pa., so they were quite friends.
Re: parasols again. Mrs. Nelson, nee Catherine (Kathryn) H. Price was so pleased with her first (pink) parasol that she went into the living room on getting home, laid on the couch with the parasol raised and set over her and went to sleep.
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