Miner's Carbide Lamp
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This mining lamp is a “Guy’s Dropper” model made by the Shanklin Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Illinois, first manufactured in 1913. The lamp is named after its inventor, Frank Guy, a miner from Springfield. Frank Guy partnered with George and Edgar Shanklin to produce this lamp, and the lamp saw tremendous success through World War I. The Shanklin Mfg. Co. was sold to the Universal Lamp Company in 1932, who continued to make "Guy's Dropper."
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ruth Parks in memory of Roland Parks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-MI-1115.2
label: accession number
content: 1978.0288
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MI-1115.2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, carbide, cap, mining
label: Object Name
content: mining lamp
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 3 3/4 in x 2 in; 12.7 cm x 9.525 cm x 5.08 cm