lamps Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/lamps/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Sat, 02 Sep 2017 09:15:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png lamps Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/lamps/ 32 32 Lamp Posts and Water Pumps in Winnetka https://forgottengalicia.com/lamp-posts-water-pumps-winnetka/ https://forgottengalicia.com/lamp-posts-water-pumps-winnetka/#respond Mon, 28 Dec 2015 15:06:21 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=243 The village of Winnetka, a suburb of Chicago, incorporated in 1869, has still a few remnants from its earliest years found in the infrastucuture and architecture.  In particular, in the yards of some of the oldest houses that date from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuies one can find […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/lamp-posts-water-pumps-winnetka/feed/ 0 Newel Post Lamps in Lviv https://forgottengalicia.com/newel-post-lamps-lviv/ https://forgottengalicia.com/newel-post-lamps-lviv/#respond Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:59:50 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=1100 Before electricity, stairwells were lit up by candles, gas lamps, and other types of lighting. Lanterns were hung from hooks or poles high in the central area of the stairwell, or sometimes the stairwell’s newel posts, due to their prime location, functioned also as lamp posts. Early newel posts burned […]

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