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Electric "Bridge Lamp" Floor Lamp

Collection Type

  • Lighting

Date

1935-1950

GUSN

GUSN-11466

Description

A lamp consisting of an iron rod on a tripod base, with an arm fashioned to hold the light. There is a finial tap on the rod. The lamp is now electrified and presently has a "modern" pink shade (Woolsworths ca.1970).

Details

Descriptive Terms

floor lamps
iron (metal)
wrought
Iron
Wrought
Lamp, Electric

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

56 (H), 12 1/2 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.688

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