They may have no electricity, but there are photographs framed and hanging on the wall behind the lantern. Indeed, a photograph was being taken which used a bright light flash, (maybe one of those where some chemical was poured along a shallow tray then lit somehow when the shutter was opened.) The flash cast a shadow, not only of the lamps from right to left, but of the man with the hat on.
And I notice the great swing arm of wood that the lamps hang from. Someone was really a genius to have done that. Come on over to Sepia Saturday to see what other creative people have come up with as triggered by this theme!
When my sister joined many other folks (lots from Florida) who wanted to go "back to living on the land" in the 1970s she moved into an old cabin (logs of course) in the mountains of Tennessee. It was up a sort of dirt and rock road which had been scraped out by tractors. They had a stream for water (not too close to the house) and no electricity. She learned how to cook on a wood stove also. The outhouse was the opposite direction from the stream, of course. They later took a tractor and made a dam to provide a pond for livestock, mainly.
I visited her and was glad they had a really nice Aladdin Lamp over the dining table. It reminded me of these oil lamps in the photo from Sepia Saturday.
Aladdin Lamps have a mantle rather than a wick, so can give off much more light, and are of course hotter than a wick fire is. Since I was visiting in summer, I was glad that we turned in early, and didn't heat up the house with the lamp for very long.
These lamps have a long chimney also, which helps draw the fire. They are apparently still in business today, and there weren't any hanging models on the site I looked at.
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Aladdin Mantle Lamp Company
681 International Blvd.
Clarksville, TN 37040, USA
Tel: 800-457-5267 FAX: 931-647-4517
www.alalddinlamps.com
E-mail: sales@aladdinlamps.com
681 International Blvd.
Clarksville, TN 37040, USA
Tel: 800-457-5267 FAX: 931-647-4517
www.alalddinlamps.com
E-mail: sales@aladdinlamps.com
Enlarged View Model 23 Wick Clip.
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I'm sorry I couldn't get this to copy with the text and the pictures in line.
Source: http://aladdinlamps.com
Other lamps use kerosene oil or lamp oil, and a cotton wick.
An antique"Mansfield" Saloon Hanging Lamp - Antique Brass 21" w/shade (selling for $119)
I used to always have 2 glass mantle "hurricane lamps" (that sat on a table) in case the electricity was out.
Have you ever camped out with a Coleman lantern? They require the gas to be pumped up, I think. And they also have a very hot light with a mantle rather than a wick. If I remember right, the mantles were very fragile cotton, and I usually had to have a couple of spares for when they broke.
Have you ever camped out with a Coleman lantern? They require the gas to be pumped up, I think. And they also have a very hot light with a mantle rather than a wick. If I remember right, the mantles were very fragile cotton, and I usually had to have a couple of spares for when they broke.
I found it one of those cosmic coincidences that a newsletter from Mother Nature Network talked about the back to the land movement this week as well. HERE...mentioning Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth Catalogs. The only problem with the article is the misnomer for those who work on computers from being nerds to being hackers. I think that is definitely not a correct definition of the computer lovers...as many nerds love their computers and their communities (though they do live in isolation) while hackers are seen as anti-establishment and even lurkers. What do you think?
