Electric Lamp
Catalog Number
2001.21.129Description
Lamp with green and gold-patterned glass, bottle shaped body; long brass center rod, decorated at bottom with eight curved prongs with spherical ends, supports socket (no light bulb); brown parchment shade with two sections (8 1/2" high together), one above other; diamond-shaped finial; 1 1/4" high brass conical shaped base with browned tan electric cord coming out hole in back; no bulb inside.History
Objects in accession 2001.21 belonged to Holland, MI residents John J. Zych (1907-2001), his wife Madalene Edding Zych (1905-1990) and their daughter Elizabeth “Betty” Zych Carsello (1926-1963).The Zych’s lived at 31 West 1st Street (Holland, MI) from 1936 through 1947. They later lived at 256 West 23rd Street in Holland, MI.
John worked for the Holland Hitch Company (1940-1945) and the Holland Racine Shoe Company (1947-1958). Madalene worked briefly for Crampton Manufacturing.
Betty operated a dance studio in Holland, Betty Jeane’s School of Dance.
John and Madalene are buried in Pilgrim Home Cemetery.