List of Abbreviations and Primary Sources

Abbreviations for frequently cited periodicals:

Archival collections, designated by their American Library symbols

CLAc: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library

1. J. Searle Dawley Collection

2. William Selig Collection

3. Charles Clark Collection

CBevA: American Film Institute, Los Angeles, Center for Advanced Film Studies

1. Library

CLCM: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

1. Thomas Armat Collection

2. Miscellaneous catalogs

CLU: University of California at Los Angeles

1. Albert Smith Collection

2. UCLA Film Archive

CU-BANC: University of California at Berkeley, Bancroft Library

1. Vaudeville Programmes

DLC: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

1. Motion Picture, Television and Recorded Sound Division

a. Paper Print Collection

b. AFI Collection

c. George Kleine Collection

d. Searchlight Theatre Collection

2. Manuscript Division

a. George Kleine Collection

3. Newspapers and Periodical Division

DNA: National Archives

1. Motion Picture Section

ICFAR: Federal Archive and Record Center, Chicago, Illinois

1. Court Cases for the Circuit Court, Northern District of Illinois

ICC: Cook County Clerk's Office, Chicago

1. Incorporation Records

ICHi: Chicago Historical Society

IaU: University of Iowa

1. E. F. Albee Collection, Special Collections

MdSuFR: Washington National Record Center, Suitland, Maryland

1. Court Cases for the Supreme Court, District of Columbia

MH-BA: Harvard Business School, Baker Library, Boston

1. Dun and Company Collection

2. Raft & Gammon Collection

NN: New York Public Library

1. Newspaper and Periodical Collection

2. Billy Rose Theater Collection

NNHi: New York Historical Society

1. Bella Landour Collection

NNMoMA: Museum of Modern Art, New York City

1. Film Study Center

a. Merritt Crawford Collection

b. Edison Collection

c. Film Collections

2. Library

NNMus: Museum of the City of New York

1. Theater Collection

2. Photograph Collection

NNNCC-Ar: New York County Clerk's Office

1. Court Cases for the Supreme Court of New York State

2. Partnership and Incorporation Records

NR-GE: George Eastman House

1. Glenn Matthews/Thomas Armat Collection

2. Film Collections

NjBaFAR: Federal Archive and Record Center, Bayonne, New Jersey

1. Court Cases for the Circuit Court, Southern District of New York

2. Court Cases for the Circuit Court, Eastern District of New York

3. Court Cases for the Circuit Court, District of New Jersey

4. Court Cases for the District Court, Southern District of New York

5. Court Cases for the District Court, Eastern District of New York

NjWOE: Edison National Historic Site, West Orange, New Jersey

1. Legal Files

2. Copyright Files

3. Document Files

4. Edison Manufacturing Company, Payroll Books (1895-1910)

5. Edison Manufacturing Company, Financial Records

6. Letter Books, Thomas A. Edison

7. Edison Laboratory, Financial Records

PP: Free Library of Philadelphia

1. Theater Collection

PPFAR: Federal Archive and Record Center, Philadelphia

1. Court Cases for the Circuit Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

2. Court Cases for the District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

PPS: Franklin Institute of Arts and Sciences

1. C. Francis Jenkins Collection

PW-bH: Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

1. Robert Gillaum Collection