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Celebration Illumination: 1909
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 1:26pm.
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New York, 1909. "Hudson-Fulton celebration. Union League Club illumination." 8x10 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
What a difference a 100 years makes
Submitted by joebogey on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 8:56pm.
Then they were trying to create daylight at night, and now we're trying to conserve energy and turn down/off lights at night. I wonder what the Kw/h usage was.
Joe from LI, NY
Read all about it!
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 2:17pm.
This was a huge celebration involving over a million lights. See what the NY Times had to say about it.
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