Engraved font [picture].

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Author/Artist: 
Bell, Ken.
Publisher: 
[S.l. : K. Bell, ca. 1975]
Description: 
1 photograph : b&w ; 17.1 x 11.9 cm.
Other Authors: 
Thuro, Catherine M. V.
Format of Material: 
Photographs
Slides & Transparencies
Subjects: 
Thuro, Catherine M. V. Archives.
Lamps United States Pictorial works.
Lamps Private collections Pictorial works.
Glass kerosene lamps United States Pictorial works.
Glass kerosene lamps Private collections Pictorial works.
Whale oil lamps United States Pictorial works.
Whale oil lamps Private collections Pictorial works.
Bib ID: 
130538
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Location: 
Secured Stacks - Archives (Active)
Call Number: 
Thuro archive, Binder 1
Location: 
RAKOW
Call Number: 
No call number available
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Notes: 
Part of the collection of photographs in the Catherine Thuro archive.
Title taken from: Oil lamps : the kerosene era in North America, by Catherine Thuro, c1976 (BIB 19516, NK6196 .T54).
Photograph is of kerosene lamp with free blown font and wheel engraved designs in turnip or pear shape with brass stem and marble base, measures ten and one-eighth inches, was made circa 1857-1863.
"PH833, Page 1 E, F16, 10 1/8", 833" " written on verso.
Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging in October 2012.

Object/Material Note

Object/Material Note: 
Published in Oil lamps: the kerosene era in North America, by Catherine Thuro: 19516, p. 81 (fig. e).