Friday, October 4, 2013

The Rushlight Club

From their webpage:  "The Rushlight Club, founded in 1932 for the study and preservation of LIGHTING, is one of the oldest organizations dedicated to a single aspect of material culture.  The collecting and researching interests of members range from the earliest primitive lighting devices through lighting by gas and electricity." http://www.rushlight.org/

We attended an Aladdin lamp convention a few years ago. There was a representative from the Rushlight Club there. He lived in Washington D.C. in an historic home that had working gas lights.

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