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Adlake Kero Lantern (7), Adams & Westlake Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Adlake Kero Lantern, circa 1913. The Adlake Kero lanterns are manufactured by the Adams and Westlake Manufacturing Company and were widely used by Canadian Railroads. This lantern features a short globe with a red tint which would be used to signal stop or danger.

Dietz Little Wizard Lantern (3), R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz Little Wizard Lantern, circa 1913. Globe is a LOC-NOB Fitzall. LOC-NOB refers to the pair of ears on a Dietz lantern globe used to keep the globe from falling out when tilting the globe plate for lighting or trimming of the wick. The globe of this lantern is tinted red to signify stop or danger.

In the 1950's a special large tank version was introduced that had the same size tank as the streamline Blizzard and D-Lite lanterns. The Little Wizard was used on street barricades prior to the development of battery powered strobe flashers. Custom imprinted lanterns were …

Csa Lantern, Undetermined

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

The manufacturer and production of this artifact are unclear. It is estimated that this lantern is a possible replica of a Confederate States of America lantern. There are no manufacturer marks or patented dates. The front of the artifact has a large CSA emblem and appears to have modern screws in its production.

Unidentified Lantern, Undetermined

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

This lantern is of an unknown manufacturer and production date. It is estimated that this artifact was used by inspectors or police for investigative purposes. The artifact closely resembles a "Dark Lantern" which was a classification of lantern that could adjust the amount of light that is released based on the users choice. Due to concerns for the structural integrity of this artifact the interior globe and bottom cannot be shown.

Dietz Steel Clad (C&O Ry), R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz Steel Clad Lantern, circa. 1887-1940.The Dietz Steel Clad was modeled in similar fashion to the Dietz #39 Standard. Like the Standard the Steel Clad came in many of its own variations. This artifact appears to be one of the earlier versions of the model as in its later versions a flat top was introduced.

The red lantern which would have been used to signal stop or danger is stamped with C8O RY which points to the use of this lantern by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

Information provided is altered from W.T. Kirkman Lanterns. https://lanternnet.com/

Dietz Little Wizard Lantern (4), R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz Little Wizard Lantern, circa 1913. Globe is a LOC-NOB Fitzall. LOC-NOB refers to the pair of ears on a Dietz lantern globe used to keep the globe from falling out when tilting the globe plate for lighting or trimming of the wick.

This artifact appears to be the model of Little Wizard created before the 1950's due to having a smaller fuel tank. Post 1950's a larger fuel tank version of the Little Wizard was implemented giving the model a larger base.

Information provided is altered from W.T. Kirkman Lanterns. https://lanternnet.com/

Dietz Little Giant (1), R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz Little Giant Lantern, circa. 1927-1957. The Dietz Little Giant is an alternative form of the Dietz Little Wizard. The Little Giant features a larger fuel tank and alternative wicks (the area that holds the flame of the lantern). The Little Giant is most often stamped with the company who purchased it to deter theft, it was used in similar fashion to the Dietz 8-day lantern by traffic and construction companies on barricades.

The Little Giant could keep a constant flame for around 70 hours making it a good signaling lantern for use throughout the week. After the Dietz factory …

Adlake Kero Lantern (8), Adams & Westlake Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Adlake Kero Lantern, circa 1913. The Adlake Kero lanterns are manufactured by the Adams and Westlake Manufacturing Company and were widely used by Canadian Railroads. This lantern features a clear globe, stamped on the globe and on the cap of the lantern are the Adlake insignia. Stamped on the brim is the full Adams & Westlake name.

Johnson Urbana Torch, Johnson Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Johnson Urbana Torch, circa. 1902. The Johnson Manufacturing company was established in 1902 in Urbana, Ohio. The company produced a variety of hand crafted tools for use in railroad lines across America. They included oiling cans, torches, a variety of lighting tools, signaling devices and other associated equipment. The company changed their focus from railroads to the trucking industry in 1939.

Adlake Kero Lantern (10) (C&O), Adams & Westlake Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Adlake Kero Lantern, circa. 1923. This lantern appears to be one of the early versions of the Adlake Kero economic styled lanterns. The economic bell bottom models of the "kero" line of lanterns are among the most recognized railroad lanterns, they were used in large numbers by Canadian railways. This particular lantern is stamped on the cap and globe with the initials C.&.O which signals its use by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway system.

Sears Elgin Lantern (2), Undetermined

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Sears Elgin Lantern, circa 1939. It is estimated that this lantern was produced for the Sears company during 1939. It is unknown which company was the producer of this lantern. Sources refer to this lantern as being purposed for use as a barn lantern.

Embury Little Supreme Lantern (1), Embury Manufacturing Comapny

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Embury Little Supreme Lantern, circa. 1939. This general use lantern was original designed and produced by the Embury Manufacturing Company. It is estimated that this lantern was produced before the buying of the Embury company by the R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company in 1953, but was most likely continuously produced after that date. The red globe of this lantern would have been used to signal stop or danger in official signaling terms.

Unidentified Dietz Lantern (N.Y.L.O), R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

The exact design of the lantern is unknown, it closely resembles the Dietz Monarch and Paulls. The globe is a LOC-NOB, LOC-NOB refers to the pair of ears on a Dietz lantern globe used to keep the globe from falling out when tilting the globe plate for lighting or trimming the wick.

Stamped on the fuel container is the initials N.Y.L.O which is once again unidentifiable, but is estimated to be some form of New York railroad or traffic organization.

Dietz No. 8 Air Pilot Lantern (2), R. E. Dietz Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Dietz No. 8 Air Pilot Lantern, circa. 1953. After the purchasing of the Embury company by Dietz in 1953 the No. 8 Air Pilot replaced the Embury No.2 and No. 1 as the main model for the air pilot models. Production of this model for a time was centered in Mexico and can be identified by Aztec stamps. This model is estimated to be produced in the US as there is no such Aztec stamp.

The globe of this lantern is green which would have been used to signal that it was safe for the vehicle or train to proceed …

Feuerhand Germany Baby #275 Lantern, Feuerhand Manufacturing Company

Morehead History & Railroad Museum Lantern Collection

Feuerhand Germany Baby lantern, circa. 1950. The Feuerhand Manufacturing company was a West Germany based manufacturer of hurricane lanterns. The "Baby" model of lanterns was one of the most popular models produced by the company during World War II and production continues under the new Petromax group who acquired the Feuerhand trademark in 2014.

Gettysburg College Journal Of The Civil War Era 2021

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Pittsburgh's Explosive Mystery: A New Holistic Study Of The Allegheny Arsenal Tragedy, Ethan J. Wagner

The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era

This research critically examines the issues surrounding the worst civilian disaster of the American Civil War, occurring on September 17, 1862 in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Here, seventy-eight teenage girls perished as the Allegheny Arsenal munitions laboratory exploded. Investigations in the disaster’s aftermath, and more recent analysis, have remained largely hesitant in placing chief blame as to its cause. Furthermore, for an event that would seem so significant, its story has inadequately been told. Given that the national spotlight was elsewhere at the time, as the Battle of Antietam was fought on the same day, existing literature has …

Asian American Voting During The 2020 Elections: A Rising, Divided Voting Group, Vi Nguyen

CMC Senior Theses

Asian Americans continue to be an untapped force within American politics. Despite their status as the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the United States they have had surprisingly low political participation rates.[1] But 2020 represented a watershed moment. Campaign outreach and voter participation increased, and Asian Americans assumed new prominence on the national stage. Nonetheless, the 2020 elections also demonstrate historical divides within the community and a lack of cohesion as a voting group.

This thesis investigates Asian American voter behavior during the 2020 election and links trends within this year's elections to assess Asian American panethnicity. It …

Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence And National Power In The Early American Republic, John Mcnelis O’Keefe

OHIO Open Faculty Textbooks

Stranger Citizens examines how foreign migrants who resided in the United States gave shape to citizenship in the decades after American independence in 1783. During this formative time, lawmakers attempted to shape citizenship and the place of immigrants in the new nation, while granting the national government new powers such as deportation.

John McNelis O'Keefe argues that despite the challenges of public and official hostility that they faced in the late 1700s and early 1800s, migrant groups worked through lobbying, engagement with government officials, and public protest to create forms of citizenship that worked for them. This push was made …

African American History To Emancipation, Aka: History In The Early Modern Atlantic World, Laurie Woodard

Open Educational Resources

African American History to Emancipation explores the history, memory, and representation of enslavement and abolition in the United States. The key questions we are posing are: how do we recover the unrecoverable and how do we remember the “unrememberable?” We will consider the history of enslavement in the Atlantic World, its legacies in the United States, the gaps in our knowledge, the global trauma of Atlantic World Slavery, and contemporary and contemporaneous representations. Key themes include: the formation of the Atlantic World, enslavement, the transatlantic slave trade, slavery in the United States, the formation of African American cultures, the emergence …

Northerners' Perspectives On American Emancipation And The End Of Russian Serfdom, Mariana S. Kellis

Honors Undergraduate Theses

This thesis explores the various perspectives that Northern Americans had on Russian serfdom and its emancipation. This era was significant to both Russia and the United States because each country experienced tremendous reforms including the abolitions of their unfree labor institutions. Generally, Northern Americans viewed serfdom as a milder form of forced labor and suspected that it would be eradicated soon. Abolitionists used rumors of Russian emancipation to advocate for the end of American slavery. Diminishing the realities of serfdom in the American media was a way for abolitionists to condemn the brutality of American slavery by comparison. After the …

Misremembering Risk In The Age Of Hurricanes: The Rhode Island Coast In The 1930s-1950s, Kara M. Schlichting

Publications and Research

This paper explores the lost history of New England hurricanes and how the “return” of hurricanes challenged understandings of the environmental vulnerabilities of coastal communities and weather. A series of severe New England hurricanes from 1938-1954 forced Rhode Islanders to reassess coastal vulnerabilities and protection strategies. Before the hurricane of ’38, Rhode Islanders lived with the vulnerability of seasonal erosion and winter storms, but believed their state was, and would remain, safe from hurricanes. In a new era of the shore-at-risk, the Army Corps of Engineers re-wrote the forgotten history of coastal dangers. Dense development along Narragansett Bay and the …

Camp Lejeune Digital Community Archive Project: An Analysis Of Digital Public History Efforts To Achieve Social Justice For The Camp Lejeune Drinking Water Contamination 1999-2017, Michael Partain

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

This digital thesis seeks to evaluate the impact of the digitization of analog record archives in environmental justice activities for the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune Community. The details of the Camp Lejeune contaminated drinking water issue are firmly rooted in the analog era of record keeping and were all but forgotten by the affected community when the base was listed as a National Priority site in 1989. However, government public health activities at the Agency of Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in the late 1990s and early 2000s resulted in the digitization of records from the military and the …

U.S. Government And Politics In Principle And Practice: Democracy, Rights, Freedoms And Empire, Samuel Finesurrey, Gary Greaves

Open Educational Resources

This book is written for students early in college to provide a guide to the founding documents and structures of governance that form the United States political system. This book is called American Government and Politics in Principle and Practice because you will notice that what has been inscribed in law has not always been applied in practice-particularly for indigenous peoples, enslaved peoples, people of color, women, LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, those formerly incarcerated, immigrants and the working class within U.S. society. In designing this book, we have two goals. First, we want you to know what the founding documents …

The Significance Of The Automobile In 20th C. American Short Fiction, Megan M. Flanery

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Midcentury American life featured a post-war economy that established a middle class in which disposable income and time for leisure were commonplace. In this socio-economic environment, consumerism flourished, ushering in the Golden Age of the automobile: from 1950 to 1960, Americans spent more time in their automobiles than ever before, and, by the end of the decade, the number of cars on the road had more than doubled. While much critical attention has been given to the role of the automobile in American novels, less has been given to its role in American short stories. The automobile has been featured …

The Reliability Of The Physical Evidence At The Battle Of The Little Big Horn: Can The Physical Evidence Found Provide An Accurate Picture?, Albert Winkler Dr.

Faculty Publications

Often, artifacts, most importantly bullets and spent shell casings, found at the location of the Battle of the Little Big Horn have been used independently of other sources to make or refute certain theories on the encounter. Books and articles based on these finds have advanced many arguments on troop dispositions, types of weapons employed, army movements, the locations of the fighting, and the duration and intensity of combat. Yet many of these studies have not adequately addressed the question of the validity of this physical evidence. The purpose of the this article is to summarize earlier arguments on the …

For The Citizens Of East Texas: The Desegregation Of Tyler State Park, Vicki Betts

Presentations and Publications

When Tyler State Park was established in 1934, it was for Whites only. After years of protest including a court case, Register v. Sandifer (1949), only one side of the lake was provided for African-Americans. It took the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to open all of the park to all visitors.

Korean War Coverage In High School History Textbooks, Zarek Nolen

Masters Theses

This content analysis investigated coverage of the Korean War in recent high school U.S. history textbooks. Open coding techniques applied to six textbooks yielded data for the following categories: background of the war, the outbreak of the war, the sequence of the war, the conclusion of the war, the devastation of war, the effects of the war, U.N. and U.S. politics, the Chinese intervention, General Douglas MacArthur, and African Americans in the military. Data from these categories were compared and scrutinized against historians’ knowledge using axial coding techniques. This study's findings support past research on Korean War coverage in high …

Scientific Development Vs. Political Strategy: Nasa’S Commitment To Science Following The First Moon Landing, Sean Van Buskirk

Masters Theses

This work looks at the scientific program of NASA during the Space Race. (1961- 1975) During this period of the Cold War, NASA shifted it role from a political asset of the United States strategy to an agency of scientific discovery. This was not a smooth transition due to political opinions on the wastefulness and role of NASA. Many politicians, citizens and even scientists had doubts about the scientific potential of NASA’s manned missions to the Moon. Despite the power politics, the administrators at NASA were able to break out of the political arena and create a balanced program where …