The latter employed an incandescent lightbulb extending out the bottom of its round white porcelain enamel reflector. The fixture was of the "gooseneck" design. These kind of street lamps were quite commonplace from the 1890s through the 1930s for street lighting installations.

Some electric utilities (especially in the Midwest) employed specially colored glass insulators to readily identify the circuits that ran their street lighting wires. Often these were amber and many shades of vivid blue for easy line identification. These insulators predominantly were made by Hemingray from the late 1880s through the later 1920s.