Mining Candle Holder
notes: label: Description
content: This is a cast-iron candle holder that was used by miners to provide their working light. Before electric lamps and carbide lamps, candles were used to provide light in some mines for most of the 19th century. This candle holder has a spike that would have been driven into a framing timber or suitable crack and a hook that could be set upon an appropriate surface near the miner’s work space.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture and Natural Resources
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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: Grant Wheat Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mary R. Wheat
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MN-8180B
label: accession number
content: 239148
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8180B
objectType: label: Object Name
content: holder, candle, mining
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 3 in x 11 in; 11.43 cm x 7.62 cm x 27.94 cm