Pottery Lamp
notes: label: Description
content: This red clay lamp has a rounded body, looped handle, and a small hole in the middle for filling the lamp with oil. The lamp has a cotton wick in its mouth. A faint design is stamped into the lamp’s center discus, perhaps a stalk of grain.
label: Description
content: Electric cap lamp inventor Grant Wheat’s personal collection of mining lamps was donated to the museum in 1962. Many of these objects were depicted in his “Story of Underground Lighting” published in the “Proceedings of the Illinois Mining Institute” in 1945. This lamp was the fifth object he used to describe the chronological development of underground lighting. Wheat wrote that the lamp is an “original pottery lamp from Pompeii, nearly 2000 years old.”
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-8168
label: accession number
content: 239148
label: catalog number
content: MHI-MN-8168
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lamp, pottery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/16 in x 5 in x 6 13/16 in; 8.382 cm x 12.7 cm x 17.272 cm