Long lived light bulb travels from Raleigh studio to family home
In Raleigh around 1900 Mrs Pal mer Dalrymple's millinery shop used electric lighting before others. A clear glass bulb replaced kerosene lamps. In 1903 Raleigh artist Mamie Gibbons received the bulb for her atelier. When Gibbons died in 1957 the studio closed and the bulb passed to her nephew Charles Gibbons, still glowing in the family home.
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