First Gas Lamp 1814, Last Oil Lamp 1842

First Gas Lamp 1814, Last Oil Lamp 1842. When the Gas Lamp at last put the Oil Lamp to flight, T'was not only lighter, but safer, at night. Showing a bright street lamp, with a couple out for a walk, flunkeys with a sedan chair, a lamplighter with a ladder, and two thieves skulking away into the shadows

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