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The Estate Staff

The Estate Staff This laundry yard was often filled with clothes hung out to dry. Inside the house domestic servants cooked, cleaned, and tended to the family's needs. Mina Edison supervised a...

The Estate Staff This laundry yard was often filled with clothes hung out to dry. Inside the house domestic servants cooked, cleaned, and tended to the family's needs. Mina Edison supervised a...

  • new jersey
  • orange
  • west orange
  • glenmont
  • thomas edison
  • mina edison
  • 1890

"Passenger service to Philadelphia and New York. All aboard!"

"Passenger service to Philadelphia and New York. All aboard!" RIVERFRONT WILMINGTON In the latter half of the nineteenth century, rapid growth of the economy and demand hand for for shipping and...

"Passenger service to Philadelphia and New York. All aboard!" RIVERFRONT WILMINGTON In the latter half of the nineteenth century, rapid growth of the economy and demand hand for for shipping...

  • delaware
  • wilmington
  • railroad
  • pennsylvania...
  • baltimore & ...
  • 1837
  • 1881
  • 1905