Whale Oil Lamp
date: label: date made
content: ca 1830
notes: label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Lighting
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Preston R. Bassett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0568.013
label: accession number
content: 1979.0568
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0568.013
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lamp
label: Object Name
content: lamp, whale oil
label: Object Type
content: Lighting Devices
label: Object Type
content: Lighting Devices
label: Other Terms
content: Lamp; Lighting Devices; Whale Oil
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (lamp body material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (burner; burner tube; burner collar material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 4 1/8 in; 7.62 cm x 10.4775 cm