Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A brass camphene lamp. The saucer base holds an elaborately molded columnar stand which leads to a reservoir with a cup shaped bottom and a broad shouldered top portion. The wick holders are splayed as is typical of ac camphene lamp.
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.
Lantern, Buggy
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Rectangular buggy lantern. This rectangular lantern has a square footprint and has thin glass panes on three sides. One side opens via hinge to provide for igniting the lantern. The fourth side of the lantern has a reflector panel on the interior and, on the exterior, a folding hinged mechanism for fastening the lantern to the front of a buggy. Oil is held on the bottom by a...
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A trapezoidal wooden base holds a glass reservoir. The glass reservoir has a square peg at its base to hold it into the wood. The reservoir is globular and has a threaded tin wick fixture. The wicks are splayed as is typical of a camphene lamp and there are wick covers attached by chains.
Lighter, Cigar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)An 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.
Lamp, Kerosene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This lamp has a tall cylindrical reservoir which is white glass, handpainted with autumn colored leaves. There is a wheel handle for moving the wick upwards. The base of the lamp is heavy cast iron sporting geometric sunburst, triangular and heartshaped friezes.
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Tall cylindrical chamber lamp with double wick.
Lamp, whale oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A cone shaped chamber lamp made of tin with the double wick fixture of a whale oil lamp.
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. (see also 68.1.1113)
Lamp, Oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This pewter oil lamp has a circular base which leads to a cylindrical stem. The stem holds up a larger cylindrical reservoir from which stems a single wick holder. This could be a whale oil lamp, or could have been used with vegetable or other oils.
Lantern, Whale Oil
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)vented lantern cap and handle above.
Lamp, Fuel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A heavy cast iron lamp. It is cylindrical with a two wick holes on the top on a slotted panel which includes a knob to move aside that panel for filling. The lamp is on a long iron handle which moves back and forth.

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