Holiday Bubble Lite Set
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: maker
content: NOMA
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A set of 8 bubble lights in original package, series circuit. Lamps: brass miniature bases with glass insulators, 2-piece plastic "Biscuit-style" skirts (used 1947-1960). One lamp is not original to the set and has a "Royal Biscuit-style" skirt. The plastic skirt-halves are a mix of colors (red, yellow, blue, orange, and green). Tipped tubular glass envelopes filled with colored liquid (1 green, 2 blue, 2 orange, 1 yellow, 1 amber, 1 red), a clear cylinder is contained inside each tube. Liquid is methylene chloride. Bakelite miniature sockets with brass shells. Green-colored plastic-insulated wires lead to all sockets except the last, this has woven cloth-insulated gold wires with red stripes. Bakelite 2-prong plug with receptacle on back and thru-wire passage. 4 metal clips (for attaching sockets to tree limbs) and one metal spiral clip(?) included in box.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Energy & Power
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content: Electric Lamps
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Harold D. Wallace, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0030.06
label: accession number
content: 2003.0030
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0030.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
label: Object Name
content: decorative lights
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 7 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 40.64 cm x 19.05 cm x 4.445 cm