Lantern
- Object Name:
- Lantern
- Object ID:
- 2015.032
- Date:
- 1900-1910
- Description:
- Wall lantern, from front gate of New Hampshire State Prison, Concord, 1900-1910. Hexagonal globe with iron frame and tin Gothic features. Trapezoidal pebbled colorless glass panels. Supported by two wrought iron arms attached to vertical wall-mounted hammered iron panel. Conical brass finial. Wired for electricity. Four glass panels intact; one broken. Also, six rectangular pieces of old pebbled glass, for possible use in replacing the two missing panels and the one broken panel.
- Material:
- Metal
Tin
Brass
Glass - Dimensions:
- H-39 W-16 D-20 inches
- Provenance:
- One of a pair of lights flanking the front gate of the New Hampshire State Prison in Concord; purchased by the donor's father at a Manchester yard sale in 1971.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Jeff Abel
- Subjects:
- Lanterns, State Prison (NH)
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