Miner's Cap Lamp
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This "Sunshine Lamp," has an unknown manufacturer but would have been in use from 1850 to around 1920. This lamp is called a Sunshine lamp because it burned "Sunshine" fuel produced by the Standard Oil Company (a mixture of paraffin wax and 3% mineral oil). This lamp's chain and hook indicate that it was hung rather than worn on the cap.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mining
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content: Mining Lamps
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Natural Resources
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Georgia Stratton Ziffzer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.062399
label: catalog number
content: 062399
label: accession number
content: 239748
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, oil, miner's
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 9 in x 3 in; 10.16 cm x 22.86 cm x 7.62 cm