Bulb, Light
- Object Name:
- Bulb, Light
- Object ID:
- 1922.009.02.4
- Date:
- 1908
- Description:
- Four electric light bulbs, to fit in candelabras 1922.009.02.2-3. Glass bulb, brass threaded base, and other undetermined materials. Pointed tip on otherwise egg-shaped glass bulbs. Filament wire inside bulb, intact, with three loops. Each bulb has a small paper sticker, described below.
Lightbulb, with rectangular applied printed sticker: "EMPIRE / 5-125 V.", 2.8" high, 1.4" bulb diameter, 7 grams, 0.25 oz.
Lightbulb, with rectangular applied printed sticker: "EMPIRE / 5-125 V.", 2.9" high, 1.4" bulb diameter, 8 grams, 0.28 oz.
Lightbulb, with oval applied printed sticker: "5 CP. / EDISON / 122 V.", 2.9" high, 1.4" bulb diameter, 8 grams, 0.28 oz.
Lightbulb, with oval applied printed sticker: "W.L.CO.", with illegible pencil markings, 2.875" high, 1.4" bulb diameter, 9 grams, 0.32 oz. - Material:
- Glass
Metal - Provenance:
- The U.S.S. New Hampshire was built by the New York Shipbuilding Company and commissioned on March 19, 1908. There were 41 officers and 809 men on board. In 1907 the state legislature appropriated $6,000 for the design and manufacture of a silver service. The William B. Durgin Company of Concord, NH made the service and it was presented to the U.S.S. New Hampshire by Gov. Charles M. Floyd on August 8, 1908 at Portsmouth. The silver service consists of 72 pieces.
The U.S.S. New Hampshire was decommissioned in 1921 as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty and sold for scrap in November 1923. - Credit Line:
- On Loan from the United States Navy Department
- Subjects:
- U.S.S. New Hampshire, Naval ships, Nationalism
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