Electric Lighting Collection

An Artist's Gathering, 1903. Creator: Viggo Johansen
An Artist's Gathering, 1903

William Jennings Bryan with group at desk, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
William Jennings Bryan with group at desk, between 1910 and 1920. Bryan was a lawyer and Secretary of State. Note electric lamp, framed photograph, and candlestick telephones on desk

Group: includes William Jennings Bryan (at desk, 2nd from right)... between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Group: includes William Jennings Bryan (at desk, 2nd from right); and Josephus Daniels, middle of 2nd row, between 1910 and 1920. American politicians. Bryan was a lawyer and Secretary of State

Josephus Daniels and group, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Josephus Daniels and group, between 1910 and 1920. American politician, newspaper editor and publisher: Secretary of the Navy during World War I

Electric Light Arrives, 1900. Creator: Manuel Manilla
Electric Light Arrives, 1900

Electric Light is a modern necessity, 1920. Creator: Unknown
Electric Light is a modern necessity, 1920. The Roaring Twenties were marked by significant development in the production of domestic electric appliances for households

Meeting of the camp council, FSA camp, Farmersville, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp for migratory agricultural workers. Farmersville, California. Meeting of the camp council

Looking in at West entrance, by Electric light, 1886 / 88. Creator: Henry Hamilton Bennett
Looking in at West entrance, by Electric light, 1886/88. Albumen print, stereo, no. 1550 from the series " St. Paul Ice Carnival"

Snow figures and East front of Palace, night scene, 1886 / 88
Snow figures and East front of Palace, night scene, 1886/88. Albumen print, stereo, no. 1551 from the series " St. Paul Ice Carnival"

The Illumination, Chicago Day, Worlds Columbian Exposition, 1893. Creator: BW Kilburn
The Illumination, Chicago Day, Worlds Columbian Exposition, 1893. [Electricity provided by Westinghouse, used to decorate buildings with incandescent lights, illuminate fountains

Thomas Alva Edison, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes, 1888

Getting Electric Light ready -- H. M. S. Edinburgh, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Getting Electric Light ready -- H.M.S. Edinburgh, c1900. From " The British Navy - Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

Rundle Street, Adelaide, Australia, 1895. Creator: York & Son
Rundle Street, Adelaide, Australia, 1895. The building with the dome is the Adelaide Arcade which opened in 1885. The first electric street lighting in South Australia was installed in Rundle Street

The Electric Light in Madison Square, New York, on a Cloudy Evening, 1882. Creator: Unknown
The Electric Light in Madison Square, New York, on a Cloudy Evening, 1882. From " St. Nicholas: Volume IX. Part I. November 1881, to May 1882". [Scribner & Co. New York, 1882]

A Rainy Night. - Street lighted by Electricity, 1882. Creator: Unknown
A Rainy Night. - Street lighted by Electricity, 1882. From " St. Nicholas: Volume IX. Part I. November 1881, to May 1882". [Scribner & Co. New York, 1882]

Langham Hotel, (c1878). Creator: Unknown
Langham Hotel, (c1878). The Langham Hotel in Marylebone, London, was designed by John Giles and built between 1863 and 1865

Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, c1900. Charles F Brush demonstrated one of the worlds first successful electric streetlights here in 1879

Tabulating machines in the punch room in a Sheffield Factory office, 1963. Artist
Tabulating machines in the punch room in a Sheffield factory office, South Yorkshire, 1963. scene in the offices of the Edgar Allen Steel Company

Philips point of sale stand for light bulbs, 1962. Artist: Michael Walters
Philips point of sale stand for light bulbs, 1962. In a photograph taken for Philips Electrical, a point of sale stand for light bulbs can be seen with the range of domestic light bulbs from 1962

Joseph Wilson Swan, British physicist and chemist, demonstrating electromagnetism, 1889. Swan (1828-1914) was the inventor of bromide paper for photography and of an incandescent light bulb

Gigantic electric lamp, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

A salon, Sandringham House, Norfolk, 1910. A photograph from Ladys Pictorial, 14th May 1910

The electric light on top of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1889. The tower, designed by Gustave Eiffel, was built as the entrance arch to the Universal Exposition held in Paris in 1889

Edisons incandescent lamps light up a New York art gallery, 1882 (1956). Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb

The Electric Light Apparatus, 1866

Advert for Neolux light fittings, 1931. A print from Punch or The London Charivari, 22nd April 1931

Fountains at the Palace of Electricity, Champ de Mars, Paris World Exposition 1889, (1900). Artist: Ewald Thiel
Fountains at the Palace of Electricity, Champ de Mars, Paris World Exposition 1889, (1900)

The electric light at Hell Gate, New York, 1885. The highest electric light in the world. Illustration from the The Graphic, (23 May 1885)

Incandescent light bulb, 1929. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb

Blackwall Tunnel, London, c1900. This tunnel, the older Western tunnel, connects the Essex and Kent sides of the Thames. Designed by the London County Councils chief engineer Alexander Binnie

Making Edison light bulbs, 1880. Vacuum apparatus used to exhaust Edison incandescent light bulbs at G (centre top). From Scientific American. (New York, 1880)

Advertisement for Ediswan incandescent light bulbs, 1898. The Ediswan brand was the result of a merging of the interests of the two pioneers of electric light bulbs

Thomas Edisons generator for electric light at his home at Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA, 1879. Behind the doors is the 80 hp engine

Manufacturing electric light bulbs, c1883 (1896). A mercury vacuum pump being used to evacuate (exhaust) light bulbs on a commercial scale

Davys electric egg, 1883. Invented in 1809, it produced intense light from a voltaic arc between the points of two carbon rods

Edisons incandescent light globe in a table lamp fitting, 1891. The filament here is carbonised bamboo fibres. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor

Edisons incandescent lamps showing various forms of carbon filament, 1883. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb

Edisons carbon filament lamp, 1880. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb

Photographers studio, c1895. The photogapher is focusing on his sitters. Above is a bank of arc lights. The use of bright artificial light meant that exposure times could be reduced to a few seconds

Women workers in a carpet factory, c1895. Electric lights with incandescent bulbs hang over each loom to supplement natural lighting and enable the working day to be extended

The International Inventions Exhibition, Kensington, London, August 1885. A large crowd in front of fountains illuminated by electric light. The Royal Albert Hall is in the background

Savoy Theatre, London, 1881. View of the interior of the Savoy Theatre with the house (not the stage) lit by Swan incandescent lamps

Thomas Edison experimenting with electric lamps on his wedding day, 1871 (1883). Edison (right) is preoccupied with his work as his bride and other guests wait in the adjoining room

Electric light plant, Maginot Line, France, 1939. Conceived by Andre Maginot (1877-1932) as an impegnable wall on Frances eastern frontier, the Maginot Line was a vast linked set of fortifications

The Electric Torchlight Procession in New York, USA, 1884. A torchlight parade in New York using Edison incandescent lamps fixed to the participants hats

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