Lady Lamp Collector. Mrs. Emilie Brett is shown in her warehouse in downtown New York inspecting part of her collection of old-fashioned oil lamps ranging in age from 75 to 125 years. Mrs. Brett is the one-woman operator of the only firm in the country which supplies a "complete line of everything in kerosene lighting goods." The packing boxes in the background contain part of a 1000-gross shipment of cheap glass bowl oil lamp destined for Port of Spain.
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Lady Lamp Collector. Mrs. Emilie Brett is shown in her warehouse in downtown New York inspecting part of her collection of old-fashioned oil lamps ranging in age from 75 to 125 years. Mrs. Brett is the one-woman operator of the only firm in the country which supplies a "complete line of everything in kerosene lighting goods." The packing boxes in the background contain part of a 1000-gross shipment of cheap glass bowl oil lamp destined for Port of Spain.

Wide World Photos, Inc. · [ca. July 1945]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

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