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Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Whale oil lamp. This iron standing lamp has an open cylindrical reservoir which cants (swings).
Lamp, Oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A four part "street" lamp. Four lamps which fit together. Each reservoir part is one quarter of a circle. The lamps have single wick spouts which arise from the inside corner of the section. Each quarter section has a handle at the center point of the semicircular outer edge.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This lamp has a double wick fixture made of tin, with the characteristically splayed camphene wick holders. It even holds its own wick covers to keep fuel from evaporating. The fixture is fitted onto a pressed glass bulbous reservoir which ends in a square peg. The peg would have fit into a wooden base.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A small glass lamp, bell-shaped, which has a small semicircular glass handle. The pewter cap and wick fixture is fastened to the top of the glass. This lamp which is very similar to 68.1.1150, is different because it has the very distinctive camphene outsplayed pointed wicks.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with a handpainted scene depicting circus performers. On the left is a man training a black horse. On the right are two acrobatic clowns performing stunts with papered hoops.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)a fourth figure--a boy--wears a yellow double breasted coat, a round hat and carries an umbrella. A fifth figure, a girl wears a bonnet, a blue scarf and has her hands in her pockets.
Lamp, Camphene;
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Small camphene/kerosene lamp made out of brass. A saucer holds a small cylinder on top of which is a globular reservoir with a pronounced shoulder. This leads to a single wick channel. A conical cap is attached by means of a hinge. There is a circular carrying handle.
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Whale oil lamp. This iron standing lamp has an open cylindrical reservoir which cants (swings).
Lamp, Whale Oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Whale oil lamp with single wick, bulb reservoir for oil fitted into a reused candlestand.
Lamp, whale oil with reflector
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This whale oil lamp has a small rounded reservoir, a handle and the typical double and parallel wick holder. It also has a large glass reflector to broadcast the light.
Lighter, Cigar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A elaborately decorated small lamp in the shape of an ancient lamp, like the one like that which belonged to the legendary Aladdin. It has a single wick opening. This is, in fact a cigar lighter.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with four scenes of far off places.
Invention of Lee Deforest
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Filler, Lamp
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A tall cylindrical copper pot with a long thin spout and lid.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rectangular glass slide with four handpainted figures: a jockey riding a bucking rabbit, a man in a top hat, waistcoat and carrying an umbrella riding on a crow, a military man with a sword and tufted helmet riding a frog, and a farmer with a pitchfork riding a rooster.
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Whale oil lamp. It has a hand blown glass lamp reservoir pegged into a crude piece of wood.
Lamp, whale oil with clock
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This whale oil lamp is made of pewter. It stands on a tall, slender cylindrical stem. The reservoir is an inverted pear shaped bulb surrounded by a strap of thinly hammered pewter numbered 1 to 12 in Roman numerals. The reservoir leads to a spout shaped wick opening.
Lamp, Oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Small tin lamp with "japanning". Japanning is a black heavy lacquer used to make tin objects look better. This lamp has a cylindrical reservoir and a single wick holder. A small holder is fastened to a circular saucer shaped base.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five scenes of people hunting in roundels framed in black background.
Lamp, Fuel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A copper/brass lamp made of several parts. A saucer base has a ring for hanging it up and a small circular handle. On top of the saucer is a tall cylindrical post on which a canting (tilting) reservoir is mounted. There is a single wick holder at the top.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)the fourth and fifth tell the story of a boy who stole some paint.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with handpainted figures of men in various occupations: a sailor, a butcher, a baker are included.
Candlestick, Miner's
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A forged iron candle holder. The candle is held next to a horizontal piece of iron in the shape of a needle. From the middle of the needle-shaped piece rises a vertical piece with a hook on the end.
Lamp, Fuel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A tin cylindrical lamp with a single wick channel in the center of the top of the lamp. At the bottom of the lamp is a triangular projection, probably for fastening it to a wall or wooden structure.
Lamp, Fuel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A copper/brass lamp made of several parts. A saucer base has a ring for hanging it up and a small circular handle. On top of the saucer is a tall cylindrical post on which a canting (tilting) reservoir is mounted. There is a single wick holder at the top.
Candle with reflector
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A pewter candlestick with a cone shaped reflector mounted perpendicular to the stick. Above the reflector is a cylindrical vent for the heat.
Lamp, whale oil with double reflector
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This whale oil lamp is made of pewter. The foot holds a vertical cylindrical reservoir above which are held the typical parallel double wicks of the whale oil lamp. On either side of the wicks are two large pieces of glass meant to magnify the flame.
Lamp, whale oil with reflector
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This whale oil lamp has a small rounded reservoir, a handle and the typical double and parallel wick holder. It also has a large glass reflector to broadcast the light.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A pewter lamp with a circular saucer shaped base, a bulbous reservoir and a semicircular handle. The double wick holders are pointed away from one another, characteristic of the camphene lamp.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A wooden base holds a pressed glass reservoir which has a square peg at the base to hold it into the wood. The glass is square with rounded shoulders and leads to a narrow mouth which has a threaded tin wick fixture. The wicks channels are splayed as is typical of a camphene lamp and there are wick covers attached by chains.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A cylindrical glass jar with a lid which transforms it into a lamp. The lid has two broad wick holders protruding from one side. A heavy C shaped cover with chain for the wick holders is attached and indicates that this is probably a camphene lamp.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)a pig and a donkey. The boys are wearing the attire of well dressed men.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with five men in various foolish activities.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A red "japanned" lamp with a saucer base, a circular handle, a tall cone shaped reservoir body and two splayed wick channels as is typical of a camphene lamp.
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Whale oil lamp. This canting brass chamber lamp has a double wick.
Lamp, Oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A globe-shaped manufactured glass lamp stamped with the words "London lamp". A tin reflector sits behind a single wick holder which is fitted into a tin screw top lid for the glass portion of the lamp.
Lamp, Fuel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A small glass lamp, bell-shaped, which has a small semicircular glass handle. The pewter cap and wick fixture is fastened to the top of the glass. This lamp has a single wick.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with handpainted scenes of ships along a coastline. This slide is damaged from exposure to humidity.
Flint kit
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A small tin half cylinder with a sliding panel top. Inside the cylinder was stored small pieces of flint wrapped in cotton wadding. At the end of the tin cylinder is attached a steel wheel on which to strike the flint for creating a fire.
Slide, Magic Lantern
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A rectangular glass slide with handpainted figures depicting five children in modes of dress from far-off lands.

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