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Turn on the Light

by The Library of Congress

Brighten up your day with images of lamps, chandeliers, and streetlights from the Prints & Photographs Division.

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Testing for gas with a safety lamp; if there is gas, the lamp will burn with a blue flame. The screening keeps the open flame confined but lets the gas in (LOC)
Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Old style candle light reflectors made out of pieces of mirror arranged to form a parabola (LOC)
Mrs. Sauer hanging up oil lamp. Cavalier County, North Dakota (LOC)
Son of migrant worker reaching for lamp atop cabinet in trailer home. Weslaco, Texas. See caption 32108-D (LOC)
Miners' lamps. Williamson County, Illinois (LOC)
Elegant sconce inside the Greenbrier Historic Resort Hotel, built in 1858 just outside White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (LOC)
[The lamp] (LOC)
Chandelier and stage inside the auditorium of the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center complex in the Arts District of Dallas, Texas (LOC)
[Various designs of student kerosene and oil lamps] (LOC)
A General Electric advertising photograph : (LOC)
Electrified candelabra, Russian Embassy, Washington D.C. (LOC)
Now I'm satisfied (LOC)
Lamp day, Friday, May 12th. Buy a lamp on lamp day for women's service in war time (LOC)
Français, économisez le gaz (LOC)
Water carnival (LOC)
"The amazing Dr. Clitterhouse" by Barre Lyndon (LOC)
Hearst Castle, known formally as La Cuesta Encantada (Spanish for "The Enchanted Hill"), is a historic estate in San Simeon, located on the Central Coast of California (LOC)
[Biltmore, estate for George Washington Vanderbilt II, Asheville, North Carolina]. (LOC)
[Wayne State University Center, Detroit, Michigan. (LOC)
[Burroughs Wellcome] (LOC)
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)
[The Breakers, residence for Cornelius Vanderbilt, II, and Alice Claypoole Gwynne Vanderbilt, 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island]. (LOC)
[Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts. (LOC)
Ornate chandelier at the landmark National Farmers Bank (now--as of 2019--a Wells Fargo Bank location) in Owatonna, Minnesota (LOC)