Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
First Edison Incandescent Lights, Miller Park |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Catalog Number |
2006.04.10.A |
Description |
First Edison Incandescent Lights, Miller Park. c.1886. B&W Print Photo, 4 x 5" card frame, featuring an image of the first incandescent lights in Miller Park. Notation on front: First Edison Incandecent Lights, Miller Park, 1879 Clipping on back: R10wb Lights Bixby, Willard Genealogy of Bixby Family. Lewis Bixby brought electric light equipment to Chautauqua at request of Lewis Miller in 1882-3 and started light plant in 1900. CAH 1879 Page 2 Electric light Light 1874 Scrap Book #1-page 2.The grounds are lighted by fires built on boxes filled with earth and elevated 8 feet. It is the old camp meeting arrangement and is very efficient. The early pictures of the first auditorium show the light poles. See picture file under Early Chaut. |
Decade |
188 |
Collection |
Chautauqua Institution Photographic Collection |
Search Terms |
Bixby, Lewis Street lights Miller Park Miller, Lewis |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic (b&w) |
Classification |
Historic Sites |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |
Lexicon sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Print size |
4 x 5" |
Place |
Miller Park |
Studio |
Unknown |
Copyright |
Public Domain |
Date |
c. 1886 |