Miner's Carbide Lamp
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This Milburn "Miner A" carbide cap lamp was manufactured around 1914. After emigrating from England, Alexander Jenkins founded the Alexander Milburn Company in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1907. The Miner A model lamp was produced from 1914-1928.
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: Natural Resources
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Thorpe, Dave. Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines
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-8145
label: accession number
content: 239148
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8145
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, cap, carbide, mining
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 2 3/4 in x 4 in; 17.78 cm x 6.985 cm x 10.16 cm