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Title: The sylvic gas light
Creator: DeVaudricourt, A., artist
Graham, C. B. (Curtis B.), printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
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Description: Image of an advertisement for the Sylvic Gas Light patented by B. Franklin Coston of Washington, D.C.; central image of a "gas light generator" with six vignettes surrounding it illustrating various venues the light can be used; decorative border made up of gas light candelabra.
Single-color print. Date supplied by cataloger based on printer and patentee history; B. Franklin Coston is listed in Washington, D.C. directories starting in 1884, and C.B. Graham printed until 1890. "A. DeVaudricourt, del."--text, bottom left margin. "C.B. Graham's Lithy. D.C."--text, bottom right margin. "For hotels, lighthouses, steam boats, cottages, factories, churches."--text, captions of vignettes in border. "B. Franklin Coston, patentee, Washington City, D.C. N.B. One gas-burner giving the light of sixteen sperm candles costs one cent for three hours."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 63.82 x 50.8 cm (25 1/8 x 20 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_HHD_002488
413229
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4807
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--House furnishings
Gas light fixtures industry
Lithographs--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Household
Large Size
Furnishings
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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