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New York, 1909. "Hudson-Fulton celebration. Union League Club illumination." 8x10 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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
This was a huge celebration involving over a million lights. See what the NY Times had to say about it.
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