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Whale oil lantern

Description: (a) Whale oil lantern with blown glass shade, tin base and top, and covered with asphaltum; two tin burners, bottom part snaps out, perforated top has round hanger attached to top; (b) brass & tin burner holder & clips; soldered points.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Oil lamps

Description: Matched pair of glass oil lamps; clear circular font above an inverted baluster, hexagonal knop over a flaring hexagonal base, on a square plinth. Metal double wick holder, one wick holder is 33 cm tall
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Oil lamps

Description: A pair of tin campaign lights (a&b); cylindrical with smaller cylinder top and bottom and channel through top to bottom; wick holder unscrews to fill reservoir with oil; wick is still intact
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Interior of John Halliday's Grocery Store

Description: Photograph of the interior of a grocery store. The men are, L-R: Ben B. Baker, clerk; Walter Shugart, clerk; John Mounts, customer; Herbert Halliday, son of proprietor-standing on chair; John Halliday, proprietor. The shelves are lined with canned goods.
Date: unknown
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Partner: Log Cabin Village
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Interview with Dr. Bill Humble, 1985

Description: A videorecording of an interview with ACU Bible Professor Dr. Bill Humble, conducted by Dr. Gary McCaleb of Abilene Christian University. Humble shows and discusses his collection of oil lamps dating from 2,000 B.C. through 400 A.D., their significance, and how they evolved and changed during that period.
Date: 1985
Duration: 29 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Humble, Bill & McCaleb, Gary
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Partner: Abilene Christian University Library

[Three oil lamps]

Description: Photograph of three oil lamps on a small table. A box of matches can be seen in front of the lamps. Three unknown bottles of liquids are present behind the oil lamps. The wall in the background is covered in floral wallpaper.
Date: [1939..1989]
Creator: Clark, Joe
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oil lamps

Description: Pair of identical urn-shaped glass whale oil lamps with pedestal bases; oil cavity is blown glass, base is pressed (molded); metal screw top screws into metal lip on glass
Date: unknown
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Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Lamp-Chimney Holder.

Description: Patent for an "improved lamp chimney holder" (lines 12-13) designed to allow a hinged member to light the wick and extinguish the light "instead of raising or removing the chimney" (lines 19-20), including illustrations.
Date: April 11, 1916
Creator: Emmert, George
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hunting Lamp.

Description: Patent for a new and improved lantern for hunting. This design "is to produce a light, cheap, and convenient lamp that can be carried upon the head with greater comfort, and at the same time be more efficient than any heretofore known" (lines 10-13).
Date: December 20, 1881
Creator: Brittan, Edward H.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lamp Wick.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wick for oil lamps. This design "consists in forming the lamp-wick of one or more layers of mineral wool inclosed in a textile material, the whole being sewed together by a series of parallel longitudinal stitches" (lines 18-22). Employing textile material represents an improvement in capillarity over previous wicks made with refractory cement.
Date: February 14, 1882
Creator: Bèck, Gebhard
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lamp and Reflector for Same.

Description: Patent for a new combination oil lamp and reflector. This design "has for its object the production of a lamp and a reflector adapted the one to the other, and in such points of construction as shall contribute to the effectiveness of both, in that no part of the former obstructs the rays of light reflected by the other, and both shall be of simple and cheap construction; and [it] consists in certain devices and combinations of devices" (lines 20-28).
Date: April 25, 1882
Creator: Cotton, Patrick H.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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