Davy Safety Lamp
notes: label: Description
content: This safety lamp came from the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., a school that was established in 1870 as the Preparatory High School for Colored Youth. It may date from 1916 when the school moved into a new building specially built for the purpose.
label: Description
content: The inscriptions on the lamp read "Everhart Brass Works, Scranton, Pa." and "19." James Marion Everhart purchased a half interest in the Scranton Brass and File Works in 1871 and became sole proprietor a few years later. After his death in 1897, the firm became the Everhart Brass Works.
label: Description
content: Ref: L. E. Knott Apparatus Co., <i>Catalogue</i> (Boston, 1921), p. 106.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Scranton
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.323753
label: catalog number
content: 323753
label: accession number
content: 252354
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Davy safety lamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 3 1/2 in; 25.4 cm x 8.89 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 9/16 in x 3 1/2 in; 26.82875 cm x 8.89 cm