406 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1951 



"What miraculous progress and improvement is visible on every 

 side of the U. S.," Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley had exclaimed. 

 This expressed well the spirit of advance in the art of illumination, 

 as vrell as of material progress in general. Every inventive step, 

 however faltering or unguided, was in the direction of new tech- 

 niques and discoveries. Every new embellishment in the decoration 

 of lighting devices, however awful to modern eyes, represented 

 progress in a growing estheticism. Thus the lamps of this era shone 

 upon a stirring scene and were themselves symbols of the times, 

 reflecting and illuminating a dynamic society. 



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