Paraffin Lamp Collection

Soup-house for ice-cutters, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Soup-house for ice-cutters, between c1910 and c1915. Shows Dietz lantern boxes and lanterns next to soup-house.

Study for Friends - Nanna Bendixson, c.1907. Creator: Hanna Pauli
Study for Friends - Nanna Bendixson, c.1907. Swedish painter sewing in the light of a kerosene lamp

The Wedding Ring - a Ghost Story for Christmas and his Twelve Days, by Miles Gerald Keon, 1857. Creator: Joseph Swain
The Wedding Ring - a Ghost Story for Christmas and his Twelve Days, by Miles Gerald Keon, 1857. Illustration to a short story, depicting a group of men seated round a hearth after dinner

Farmer from Laren, North Holland, 1902. Creator: Martinus van Regteren Altena
Farmer from Laren, North Holland, 1902

Mother and child, evening, 1890-1907. Creator: Sigurd Wandel
Mother and child, evening, 1890-1907

Petroli D'italia Milano. Creator: Codognato, Plinio (1878-1940)
Petroli D'italia Milano. Private Collection

L'Éclatante, 1898. Creator: Robbe, Manuel (1872-1936)
L'Eclatante, 1898. Private Collection

Splendor. Petrolio Extra Raffinato. Creator: Metlicovitz, Leopoldo (1868-1944)
Splendor. Petrolio Extra Raffinato. Private Collection

Migrant agricultural worker's family, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea picker's camp, Nipomo, California

Migrant agricultural worker's family, Nipomo, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is native Californian. Nipomo, California

Migrant agricultural worker's family, Nipomo, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven children without food. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Nipomo, California

Kerosene Lantern, c. 1939. Creator: Amelia Tuccio
Kerosene Lantern, c. 1939

Bimse at the piano, 1902. Creator: Peter Hansen
Bimse at the piano, 1902

Orchestra during intermission at square dance, McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1939 or 1940. Creator: Russell Lee
Orchestra during intermission at square dance; notice sweated shirt of host, McIntosh County, Oklahoma

A family which lives in the Southwest area, Washington, D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. A family which lives in the Southwest area

Negro woman in her home, Washington (southwest section), D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington (southwest section), D.C. Negro woman in her home

Elderly couple eating dinner at their home on Lamont Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. Elderly couple eating dinner at their home on Lamont Street, N.W

A young boy who lives near the nations capitol, Washington, D. C. 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
Washington, D.C. A young boy who lives near the nations capitol

Family of six in tent after supper, FSA mobile unit, Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon, 1939 Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family of six in tent after supper. Came to potato harvest after father was laid off of WPA (Work Projects Administration) in Boise, Idaho. Oldest child is twelve. Little boy has dysentery

Washstand in the dog run and kitchen of Floyd Burroughs cabin, Hale County, Alabama, 1936. Creator: Walker Evans
Washstand in the dog run and kitchen of Floyd Burroughs cabin. Hale County, Alabama

Electricine. Eclairage de Luxe, 1896. Creator: Anonymous
Electricine. Eclairage de Luxe, 1896. Private Collection

Kerosene Street Car Lamp, c. 1936. Creator: Florence Huston
Kerosene Street Car Lamp, c. 1936

Camp Park Woods - Officers Quarters, March 1862; Civil War, 1861-1865. Interior view of officers quarters belonging to Captain Green at Camp Park Woods, located about 2 miles south of 7th Street

Kerosene Lamp Heater, c. 1942. Creator: Samuel Faigin
Kerosene Lamp Heater, c. 1942

Kerosene Lantern, 1939. Creator: Samuel Faigin
Kerosene Lantern, 1939

After the Ball, 1874. Creator: Alfred Stevens
After the Ball, 1874

The Surrender at Sedan Castle, 2 September 1870, (1936). Creator: Unknown
The Surrender at Sedan Castle, 2 September 1870, (1936). Die Kapitulation Der Festung Sedan, 2 September 1870. During the Franco-Prussian War

The Invalid, late 19th-early 20th century, (1965). Creator: Vasilij Dmitrievic Polenov
The Invalid, late 19th-early 20th century, (1965). From " Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Vladimir Fiala. [Artia, Czechoslovakia, 1965]

Paraffin lamp, c1950. Creator: Shirley Markham
Paraffin lamp, c1950. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

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