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- Kerosene Table Lamp, 1875-1885 -
- 1875-1885
- Collections - Artifact
Kerosene Table Lamp, 1875-1885
- Kerosene Chandelier, 1885-1900 -
- 1885-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Kerosene Chandelier, 1885-1900
- Kerosene Chandelier, 1876-1885 - Stores, depots, theaters, churches, libraries and other public buildings in the late 19th century required areas of concentrated light. Large overhead chandeliers with multiple burners and mirrored reflectors illuminated a building's dark spaces. This chandelier's large ring of mirrors on the underside of the lower canopy reflected light from ten kerosene burners down onto the public space below.
- 1876-1885
- Collections - Artifact
Kerosene Chandelier, 1876-1885
Stores, depots, theaters, churches, libraries and other public buildings in the late 19th century required areas of concentrated light. Large overhead chandeliers with multiple burners and mirrored reflectors illuminated a building's dark spaces. This chandelier's large ring of mirrors on the underside of the lower canopy reflected light from ten kerosene burners down onto the public space below.
- Trade Card for Electric Argand Burner Lamps, Plume and Atwood Manufacturing Company, circa 1880 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for Electric Argand Burner Lamps, Plume and Atwood Manufacturing Company, circa 1880
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- "Little Duchess" Miniature Kerosene Lamp, circa 1880 - Kerosene was extremely popular for lighting and heating in the mid and late 1800s. This small lamp made by Plume and Atwood Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut, used kerosene.
- circa 1880
- Collections - Artifact
"Little Duchess" Miniature Kerosene Lamp, circa 1880
Kerosene was extremely popular for lighting and heating in the mid and late 1800s. This small lamp made by Plume and Atwood Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut, used kerosene.
- Kerosene Chandelier, 1885-1900 -
- 1885-1900
- Collections - Artifact
Kerosene Chandelier, 1885-1900