Name/Title
Livery Stables Boesch Lantern, Ca. 1880Entry/Object ID
1981.159.1Description
Acc. No. 81.159.1
Subject Category: Businesses (Livery Stable)
Date or period: Circa 1880
Object: Lantern
Description: It is a tin lantern, manufactured by Boesch Lamp Co. Manufactures, San Francisco, California (This is impressed on the hot air release between the bale handle.) It appears to be hand made. It has four sides, three with clear glass, and the back is a sheet of tin, which supports a holder containing a mercury glass reflector. The interior has a kerosene lamp with a brass font, which slides on a tract and can be removed and be carried around as a hand lamp. It also has a glass chimney.
Size: from top to bottom 15" high, 6½" across each side.
History Of Object: This old fashioned oil lantern hung in the Livery Stables of Mr. Herbert Townsend, Third Avenue near 6th Street between Central Avenue and Taylor. Mr. Townsend was the owner and builder in 1878. It was torn down in 1905.
Acquired from: Mr. Fred Townsend
Date:Interpretative Labels
Label
4/13/2020 MvL: current label for cabinet HR18:
EARLY ALAMEDA LIGHTING DEVICES
Kerosene lamps from the late 19th Century, early 20th Century
Top shelf, from left to right:
=> A tin lantern, made in San Francisco, that hung in an Alameda livery stable.
[A swinging bale handle lantern, made by Dietz of New York, that belonged to a longtime Alameda policeman.]
[A miniature hand lamp with its original wick used by an old-time Alameda family.]
Bottom shelf, from left to right:
[A hanging lamp with three burners that was used in the late 19th Century.]
[A lamp used by a pioneer family that resided on Lafayette Street]
[A galvanized steel hand lamp from the home of early Alameda residents.]