Kerosene lamps
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| Title: | Kerosene lamps |
| Description: | Display of three hanging kerosene lamps and elaborate architectural frieze above featuring a devil-like figure riding a large fish, both of which appear to be superimposed over a mural. |
| Date: | 1930? |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) |
| More Details: |
On verso: typed label: "Kerosene lamps used a century past for illuminating shows and carousells [sic], old prints and illustrations show a row of six or eight lamps suspended on rods in front of the enterprise. Carousells were 'brilliantly' illuminated with 16 kerosene lamps. With the invention of the electric light in the eighties of the last century, a great change took place. A modern carousell is now illuminated by 2,000 electric lights." Title from typed label on verso. |
| Collection: | Coney Island
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| Subject: |
Kerosene lamps Merry-go-round Museums |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. |
| Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library |
| ID: | CONE 0213 |
