Miner's Oldham Battery Lamp
notes: label: Description
content: This is an Oldham S4V Super Hewers' electric hand lamp manufactured by Oldham & Son Ltd. of Denton, Manchester, England during the 1930s. The lamp consists of a lower metal bonnet that slid over the lamp’s battery, and a light bulb at the top that is encased in a ridged glass cylinder. Oldham & Son began servicing the mining industry in Manchester in 1865 with a variety of machines, before manufacturing mining lamps and batteries in the 20th century.
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: 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-8140
label: accession number
content: 239148
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8140
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, hand, mining
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 5 3/8 in x 5 1/2 in; 36.83 cm x 13.716 cm x 13.97 cm