Miner's Carbide Lamp
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This lamp appears to be a Dew-R-Lite model, made by the Dewar Manufacturing Company, perhaps model number 205. The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, New York, produced carbide mining lamps from around 1914 until it was bought by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. in the late 1930’s. Dewar was well known for its “I-T-P” (It’s Trouble Proof), Sun Ray, and Dew-R-Lite lamp brands.
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: Koehler Manufacturing Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MN-8950
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8950
label: accession number
content: 236603
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, carbide, mining
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/2 in x 4 in x 5 1/2 in; 39.37 cm x 10.16 cm x 13.97 cm