Message-ID: <183658.14877.qm@web36501.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:28:16 -0700 (PDT) From: stacey <maemae10@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Street light query
Just wondering if you might have contacted GE as they may be able to help.
--- On Sun, 6/28/09, Bob & Emogene Dodsworth <remazo@charter.net> wrote:
From: Bob & Emogene Dodsworth <remazo@charter.net>
Subject: Street light query
To: "Listserve" <localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu>
Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009, 10:24 AM
The Mazomanie Historical Society has a number of old street light fixtures
that we are trying to identify. They were used in the village and hung over
the streets in the commercial district. The earliest photo that shows one
in use dates from around 1900. Can anyone help us with an identification?
As illustrated in the photo, the fixture has a tapered wooden arm approxima
tely 2 inches square and 21½ inches long centered above the reflector.
The flattened conical reflector is 18 inches in diameter and 3 inches high
. The overall height of the fixture excluding the wire looped hanger, is 7
inches.
They were evidently hung above a street using the electric wire feed lines
and the looped hanger for support. The internal fittings that held a lamp a
re brass and labeled General Electric. The lamp was possibly a bayonet type
and has a larger base the the Edison screw base common in today’s
household applications.