Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Edison Collage complete

Well the collage is complete. I like the clarity of the colors in the lower right panel of the tavern. The other panels are a little more muted, but I think overall it pulls together as a composition.

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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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