Thursday, September 2, 2010

Lighting the city 1840's style




In the day's before electric light the cities of the world were often illuminated by gaslight. Here are two shots of the working gaslight street lights. If you look close at the close up photo you will see that the lamp lighter has forgotten to extinguish the gas when the new day began. These lights are in Old Town Alexandria, VA

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