[Thomas Edison and Colonel Edwin W. Bailey in Bailey Electric automobile]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Thomas Edison and Colonel Edwin W. Bailey in Bailey Electric automobile]
ca. 1910
Gelatin silver print
Image: 8 × 9 7/8 in. (20.3 × 25.1 cm)
Paper: 8 5/16 × 10 3/16 in. (21.1 × 25.9 cm)
Mount: 10 1/2 × 13 7/16 in. (26.6 × 34.1 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1950.0011.0002
Inscriptions Inscribed in blue ink on verso, BC: Col Bailey + Thos. A. Edison \ in \ Bailey Electric Car \ one \ of the lot Electric Cars. \ Licence 11390
Printed on applied newspaper clipping on verso, BC: Col. Bailey, 76, \ 1940 [inscribed in ink] \ Dies in Barbadoes \ AMESBURY, March 8 - Col. Ed- \ win W. Bailey, 76, Spanish war vet- \ eran and builder of one of the first \ electric automobiles, died suddenly \ today in the Barbadoes, West Indies, \ according to word received at his \ Hillside avenue residence here. \ A native of Maine and a former \ resident of Charlestown, Col. Bailey \ was associated with Thomas A. Edi- \ son in building an electric automo- \ bile known as the Bailey Electric. \ He later went into the automobile \ body building business under the \ firm name of Bailey & Company. \ He leaves three sons, Samuel R. \ David [illegible] and Edwin W. Bailey.
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on verso, BLC: Godsoe [?] \ Boston \ 7-1944 \ OIIΣv \ A S Boy
Printed on applied newspaper clipping on verso, BC: Col. Bailey, 76, \ 1940 [inscribed in ink] \ Dies in Barbadoes \ AMESBURY, March 8 - Col. Ed- \ win W. Bailey, 76, Spanish war vet- \ eran and builder of one of the first \ electric automobiles, died suddenly \ today in the Barbadoes, West Indies, \ according to word received at his \ Hillside avenue residence here. \ A native of Maine and a former \ resident of Charlestown, Col. Bailey \ was associated with Thomas A. Edi- \ son in building an electric automo- \ bile known as the Bailey Electric. \ He later went into the automobile \ body building business under the \ firm name of Bailey & Company. \ He leaves three sons, Samuel R. \ David [illegible] and Edwin W. Bailey.
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on verso, BLC: Godsoe [?] \ Boston \ 7-1944 \ OIIΣv \ A S Boy
