SummaryDisplay of three hanging kerosene lamps and elaborate architectural frieze above featuring a devil-like figure riding a large fish, both of which appear to be superimposed over a mural.
NoteOn verso: typed label: "Kerosene lamps used a century past for illuminating shows and carousells [sic], old prints and illustrations show a row of six or eight lamps suspended on rods in front of the enterprise. Carousells were 'brilliantly' illuminated with 16 kerosene lamps. With the invention of the electric light in the eighties of the last century, a great change took place. A modern carousell is now illuminated by 2,000 electric lights." Title from typed label on verso.
Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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