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Lighter, Cigar

Lighter, Cigar


Title	Lighter, Cigar
Coverage / Year	1800 to 1900
Description	A elaborately decorated small lamp in the shape of an ancient lamp, like the one like that which belonged to the legendary Aladdin. It has a single wick opening. This is, in fact a cigar lighter.
Interpretation	By the end of the 19th century, the small individual oil lamp had been replaced by kerosene lamps, gas lighting and even in some places electrical lamps. The ancient form of lamp, which was still used for whale oil and camphene lamps became used for something as insignificant as a cigar lighter.
Lesson Plans / Themes	American Communities in History; Communities and Geography; How we learn about communities; Whaling Slide Show; Inventions Multimedia Time Line; School Museum; Introduction of artifacts as a primary source; What's That Relic?; Settling in the Midwest;
Learning Standards	16 History; 18 Social Systems; 13 Science, Technology and Society;
Author or Creator	Unknown
Subject / Keywords	Oil lamp; Light; Lighting device; Whaling; Whale; Whales; Whale oil; Camphene; Cigar industry; Cigars; Cigar lighter
Collection Publisher	Early American Museum
Further Information	For any further information related to this record, please contact the Collection Publisher. See http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/tdc for more information about this project.
Rights Management Statement	http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/tdc/conditions.htm
Resource Identifier	1968.001.0975
CONTENTdm file name	79642172422004_68.1.0975a.jpg

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