Carbide Miners Lamp

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Carbide Miners Lamp, ca. 1925 to 1935

Carbide is a compound of carbon and calcium, which – with the addition of water – produces acetylene gas.  The gas is lighted to produce a small, very bright flame.  This type of lamp was used in area mines until the 1930s.

The lamp’s original owner Gabor Szakacs emigrated from Hungary to Canada in 1908 at age seventeen.  Be arrived in Lethbridge in 1910 and worked in no.s 3, 6 and no. 8 mines until 1952.

Ref. #P19890018002
 
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