This carriage lamp was made around 1830, and burned whale oil, the brightest, cleanest oil of its day. The lamp was from a buggy built by Field and David Long, Jr. of Greenfield, Massachusetts, for C. Stratton, a “surgeon dentist.”
John Kurtz. Carriage Lamp. ca. 1830. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1886-31-02-01/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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