Excavations carried on at night by aid of electric light by John Howard Appleton

Workers digging at night at a mountain base, lit by a bright electric light beam rising from a tall mast under a starry sky.

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A nighttime scene shows workers digging and hauling earth at the base of a mountain, lit by a bright conical beam of light rising from a tall mast. Men with pickaxes, shovels and a wheelbarrow labor across the foreground while a figure in a hat directs the work. This print by John Howard Appleton, dated 1884, is titled Excavations carried on at night by aid of electric light.

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