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Visual Materials
The sylvic gas light
- 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.
- Date
- approximately 1884-1890
- Call number
- priJLC_HHD_002488
- Provenance
- Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the household goods prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.
