Thomas Edison Frame Color:Brown A Great Holiday to be

A Great Holiday to be Remembered in This City

He was also its greatest drawing card

a symbol of boundary-breaking endurance that stands the test of time

The front page of The New York Times described scenes of celebration

Photographer Nat Fein took this 1948 rear-view photo of an ailing Babe Ruth while on staff for the New York Herald Tribune

Thomas Edison Frame Color:Brown A Great Holiday to beThomas Edison, deep in thought, left, in his laboratory in West Orange, N. J. Called "The American Genie of the (Electric) Lamp" by The Times, it was reported that when he worked he allowed himself no more than his usual half hour midday meal. A Times reporter ventured to interrogate him about his "undermined physical vitality" in 1921. He instantly assumed a position of a soldier and challenged: "Do I look it?" It was then that all appeared satisfied