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Some history surrounding these images is below.
The Edison Memorial Tower commemorates the site where Edison perfected the incandescent lightbulb among other electric inventions including a version of the electric train. The top right panel is of Union County Park. Travelers on the highway would have passed by the Rahway Poor Farm, which preceded the park. The center right image is of the bridge over the Lehigh Valley railroad bringing coal from Pennsylvania to Perth Amboy and New York. The Merchants and Drovers Tavern, built around 1795 on the country road to Elizabethtown at the intersection of the road to Westfield operated continuously as an inn from 1798 until the mid-1930s,
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