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The light house of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), Charleston Harbor, S.C. Morris Island in the distance

The light house of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), Charleston Harbor, S.C....

Stereograph showing a beacon tower above the gabion reinforced entrance to a bombproof construction on the parapet of Fort Sumter. A cannon is nearby. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History... More

Kamennyĭ kurgan s vesennim stolbom, sluzhashchim mai︠a︡k︡om vo vremi︠a︡ razliva. Olenʹi Roga. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡]

Kamennyĭ kurgan s vesennim stolbom, sluzhashchim mai︠a︡k︡om vo vremi︠a...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Russian Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nix's Mate, Boston, Massachusetts. - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Nix's Mate, Boston, Massachusetts. - Public domain image. Dry plate ne...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Old Harbor Beacon, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Old Harbor Beacon, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Previously HABS No. GA-14-38. Survey number: HABS GA-232 Building/structure dates: 1858 Initial Construction

A new diamond in Manhattan's sky

A new diamond in Manhattan's sky

Photograph shows beacon lights beaming brightly from atop the Empire State Building at night illuminating the clouds in the sky. Associated Press photograph. No. 3104H. Date on verso: Apr 12 1956. Caption on ve... More

Kamennyĭ kurgan s vesennim stolbom, sluzhashchim mai︠a︡k︡om vo vremi︠a︡ razliva. Olenʹi Roga. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡]

Kamennyĭ kurgan s vesennim stolbom, sluzhashchim mai︠a︡k︡om vo vremi︠a...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"The Man-made Star"--Lindbergh Beacon, Palmolive Building, Chicago, Ill

"The Man-made Star"--Lindbergh Beacon, Palmolive Building, Chicago, Il...

No. 32716. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Kamennyĭ kurgan s vesennim stolbom, sluzhashchim mai︠a︡k︡om vo vremi︠a︡ razliva. Olenʹi Roga. Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Kamennyĭ kurgan s vesennim stolbom, sluzhashc...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russia... More

Interior of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), showing light house

Interior of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), showing light house

Stereograph showing a beacon above a bombproof construction on the parapet of Fort Sumter, with gabions used as reinforcements. No. 344, part of series: War Views. Copyright 1865 by John P. Soule. Attributed t... More

Inside view, Fort Sumter, Confederate States of America.

Inside view, Fort Sumter, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows a beacon on the parapet and gabions used as reinforcements in the interior of Fort Sumter. Original neg. for this print: LC-B811-3055. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.

... An act to continue in force for a limited time, the act supplementary to the act for the establishment and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers ... Approved June the seventh 1794. [Followed by] An act declaring the consen

... An act to continue in force for a limited time, the act supplement...

Caption title: At head of title Third Congress of the United States: begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and n... More

An act for the establishment and support of light houses, beacons and buoys ... 1789 July 20h. Read the third time and passed the House of representatives. New York: Printed by Thomas Greenleaf [1789].

An act for the establishment and support of light houses, beacons and ...

Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 211, Folder 9.

An act to anend the act for the establishment and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers. [New York: Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1790.].
Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Kamennyĭ kurgan s vesennim stolbom, sluzhashchim mai︠a︡k︡om vo vremi︠a︡ razliva. Olenʹi Roga. Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Kamennyĭ kurgan s vesennim stolbom, sluzhashc...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russia... More

Kamennyĭ kurgan s vesennim stolbom, sluzhashchim mai︠a︡k︡om vo vremi︠a︡ razliva. Olenʹi Roga. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡]

Kamennyĭ kurgan s vesennim stolbom, sluzhashchim mai︠a︡k︡om vo vremi︠a...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Russian Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An act for the establishment and support of light houses, beacons, buoys, and piers. New York. Printed by Thomas Greenleaf. [1789].

An act for the establishment and support of light houses, beacons, buo...

Not in Evans.; Mss. corrections throughout. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 211, Folder 9a.

Interior of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), showing light house

Interior of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), showing light house

Stereograph showing a beacon above a bombproof construction on the parapet of Fort Sumter, with gabions used as reinforcements. No. 344, part of series: War Views. Copyright 1865 by John P. Soule. Attributed t... More

An act supplementary to the act for the establishment and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers. [Philadelphia] Printed by John Fenno [1790].

An act supplementary to the act for the establishment and support of l...

Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 214, Folder 21.

Sketch showing the positions of the beacons on the Florida reefs

Sketch showing the positions of the beacons on the Florida reefs

Scale 1:400,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 117.6 (Its no. 464) At head of title: U.S. Coast Survey, A. D. Bache, Supdt. "No. 464 price 15 cents" is printed in the upper margin. Inset: Plan of beacons devised... More

Floats thru the air. Washington, D.C. August 6. The links trainer for blind flying at the Department of Commerce takes the pilots on cross- country trips but never leaving the building. It flies and handles like an airplane picking up radio beacons on the course, banking and turning, does not know whether he reached his destination until he is thru with the flight. Photo shows Miss Eleanor Sterbis about to take a lesson in the trainer

Floats thru the air. Washington, D.C. August 6. The links trainer for ...

A black and white photo of a man in a plane. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beacon Light in Harbor, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia

Beacon Light in Harbor, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia

Title from photographer's inventory. Cast iron harbor light. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11835-26. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

An act for the establishment and support of light houses, beacons, buoys, and piers. New York. Printed by Thomas Greenleaf. [1789].

An act for the establishment and support of light houses, beacons, buo...

Not in Evans.; Mss. corrections throughout. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 211, Folder 9a.

... An act for the relief of William Seymour. [Followed by] An act relative to cessions of jurisdiction in places, where light houses, beacons, buoys and public piers have been or many hereafter be erected and fixed. [Phildelphia: Printed by Fra
Inside view, Fort Sumter, Confederate States of America.

Inside view, Fort Sumter, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows a beacon on the parapet and gabions used as reinforcements in the interior of Fort Sumter. Original neg. for this print: LC-B811-3055. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.

Day beacon on Seaflower Reef, Long Island Sound / Am. Photo-Relief, Printing Co., Philadelphia.

Day beacon on Seaflower Reef, Long Island Sound / Am. Photo-Relief, Pr...

Above print: U.S. Light-house establishment, 1873. Below print: Am. Photo-Relief, Printing Co., Phila. Illus. in: Annual Report of the U.S. Light-House Board, 1873, plate opposite page 34.

Nix's Mate, Boston, Massachusetts - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Nix's Mate, Boston, Massachusetts - Public domain image. Dry plate neg...

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "3093" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018920. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Beacon Light in Harbor, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia

Beacon Light in Harbor, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Kamennyĭ kurgan s vesennim stolbom, sluzhashchim mai︠a︡k︡om vo vremi︠a︡ razliva. Olenʹi Roga. Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Kamennyĭ kurgan s vesennim stolbom, sluzhashc...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russia... More

An act for the establishment and support of light houses, beacons and buoys ... 1789 July 20h. Read the third time and passed the House of representatives. New York: Printed by Thomas Greenleaf [1789].

An act for the establishment and support of light houses, beacons and ...

Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 211, Folder 9.