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Image Not Available for Electricity is set up. Each house will be connected to the electric lighting system.
Electricity is set up. Each house will be connected to the electric lighting system.
Image Not Available for Electricity is set up. Each house will be connected to the electric lighting system.

Electricity is set up. Each house will be connected to the electric lighting system.

Creator Presse-Photo
Date1930s
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 17.8 x 24.5 cm (7 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2002
Category
Object number2002/7647
LocationNot currently on display

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1930s
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Presse-Photo
1930s
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Image Not Available for Building at Sing-Sing prison which houses the electric chair.
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Presse-Photo
1930s
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Image Not Available for One only needs to push one of the buttons and depending who would like to speak to, you are instantly connected to that person.
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Presse-Photo
1930s
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Image Not Available for A policeman on point duty at a busy corner in Stockholm regulating the traffic by the lighting system now used in Piccadilly, London.
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Pacific & Atlantic Photos Ltd
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Presse-Photo
1930s
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Presse-Photo
1933
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Image Not Available for A diorama of a small town which will demonstrate how electricity will move from the power station to the town.
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Presse-Photo
1930s
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Image Not Available for One of the fantastic light sources which provides indirect lighting showing the motifs in the theatre
One of the fantastic light sources which provides indirect lighting showing the motifs in the theatre
Presse-Photo
1932
Photograph
Image Not Available for During a thunderstorm in New York, an amateur photographer managed to photograph a lighting bolt striking the Empire State Building.
During a thunderstorm in New York, an amateur photographer managed to photograph a lighting bolt striking the Empire State Building.
Presse-Photo
1930s
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Image Not Available for The private railroad station of the Pope in the Vatican State. This station has rarely been used and nowadays is mostly used to transport freight. The whole railway system of the Vatican State amounts to no more than 200 metres where it connected to the I
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Pacific & Atlantic
1930s
Photograph
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