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Filler, Lamp


Title	Filler, Lamp
Coverage / Year	1800 to 1900
Description	A tall cylindrical copper pot with a long thin spout and lid.
Interpretation	Whale oil, camphene and fuel oil lamps all needed to be filled. Many of the openings for filling were very small and required a special implement to fill them. The small cylindrical spout on this pot was used for such fillings.
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; Lamp filler; Copper
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	1968.001.0959
CONTENTdm file name	93741172422004_68.1.0959.jpg