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Stratford Shoal Lighthouse, Long Island Sound, Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT

Stratford Shoal Lighthouse, Long Island Sound, Bridgeport, Fairfield C...

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Stratford Shoal Lighthouse, Long Island Sound, Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT

Stratford Shoal Lighthouse, Long Island Sound, Bridgeport, Fairfield C...

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Rock Harbor Lighthouse, Copper Harbor, Keweenaw County, MI

Rock Harbor Lighthouse, Copper Harbor, Keweenaw County, MI

Significance: After the signing of the Treaty of LaPointe in 1843 with the Chippewa Nation, Isle Royale was opened to copper exploration and mining. By 1847 more than one dozen mining companies had established... More

Rock Harbor Lighthouse, Copper Harbor, Keweenaw County, MI

Rock Harbor Lighthouse, Copper Harbor, Keweenaw County, MI

Significance: After the signing of the Treaty of LaPointe in 1843 with the Chippewa Nation, Isle Royale was opened to copper exploration and mining. By 1847 more than one dozen mining companies had established... More

Mount Desert Rock Light Station, Twenty miles south of Mount Desert Island, Frenchboro, Hancock County, ME
[Panorama of Tampico River and the jetties from the lighthouse]

[Panorama of Tampico River and the jetties from the lighthouse]

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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Point of Cape Hatteras, access road from Route 12, Buxton, Dare County, NC

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Point of Cape Hatteras, access road from Rou...

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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Point of Cape Hatteras, access road from Route 12, Buxton, Dare County, NC

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Point of Cape Hatteras, access road from Rou...

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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Point of Cape Hatteras, access road from Route 12, Buxton, Dare County, NC

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Point of Cape Hatteras, access road from Rou...

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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Point of Cape Hatteras, access road from Route 12, Buxton, Dare County, NC

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Point of Cape Hatteras, access road from Rou...

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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Point of Cape Hatteras, access road from Route 12, Buxton, Dare County, NC

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Point of Cape Hatteras, access road from Rou...

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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Point of Cape Hatteras, access road from Route 12, Buxton, Dare County, NC

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Point of Cape Hatteras, access road from Rou...

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Great Point Lighthouse, Great Point, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Great Point Lighthouse, Great Point, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Significance: One of the oldest and most important lighthouses on the coast. The stone tower of Great Point Light was built in 1818 to mark an offshore rip and bar, replacing a 1784 structure which had burned i... More

Bodie Island Light Station, Off Highway 12, Nags Head, Dare County, NC

Bodie Island Light Station, Off Highway 12, Nags Head, Dare County, NC

Significance: Bodie Island Light Station served as an important aid to navigation in a system of lighthouses guiding mariners along the hazardous waters of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, often referred to a... More

Bodie Island Light Station, Off Highway 12, Nags Head, Dare County, NC

Bodie Island Light Station, Off Highway 12, Nags Head, Dare County, NC

Significance: Bodie Island Light Station served as an important aid to navigation in a system of lighthouses guiding mariners along the hazardous waters of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, often referred to a... More

Bodie Island Light Station, Off Highway 12, Nags Head, Dare County, NC

Bodie Island Light Station, Off Highway 12, Nags Head, Dare County, NC

Significance: Bodie Island Light Station served as an important aid to navigation in a system of lighthouses guiding mariners along the hazardous waters of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, often referred to a... More

Raspberry Island Light Station, Lighthouse & Keeper's Quarters, Bayfield, Bayfield County, WI

Raspberry Island Light Station, Lighthouse & Keeper's Quarters, Bayfie...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N43 Survey number: HABS WI-312-A

Michigan Island Light Station, Keeper's Quarters & Lighthouse, La Pointe, Ashland County, WI

Michigan Island Light Station, Keeper's Quarters & Lighthouse, La Poin...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N45 Survey number: HABS WI-317-A

Michigan Island Light Station, Keeper's Quarters & Lighthouse, La Pointe, Ashland County, WI

Michigan Island Light Station, Keeper's Quarters & Lighthouse, La Poin...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N45 Survey number: HABS WI-317-A

Faro de las Cabezas de San Juan, Cabezas de San Juan, Las Croabas, Fajardo Municipio, PR

Faro de las Cabezas de San Juan, Cabezas de San Juan, Las Croabas, Faj...

Significance: In 1782, one hundred years before the final construction of Cabo San Juan Lighthouse, Fray Inigo Abbad y Lasierra, who wrote the first formal history of Puerto Rico stated that: "The mountain peak... More

Michigan City Lighthouse, Washington Park, Michigan City, La Porte County, IN

Michigan City Lighthouse, Washington Park, Michigan City, La Porte Cou...

Significance: The building served as a navigation lighthouse for shipping on the southern shore of Lake Michigan. It served in this capacity from 1858 until 1934 when a new facility replaced it. Survey number... More

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28408, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28408, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-H Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28417, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28417, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-G Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28417, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28417, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-G Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Moloka'i Light Station, Lighthouse, Makanalua,Moloka'i Island, Kalaupapa, Kalawao County, HI

Moloka'i Light Station, Lighthouse, Makanalua,Moloka'i Island, Kalaupa...

Survey number: HABS HI-99-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76002145

Cedar Point Lighthouse, Cedar Point at Patuxent River & Chesapeake Bay, Lexington Park, St. Mary's County, MD

Cedar Point Lighthouse, Cedar Point at Patuxent River & Chesapeake Bay...

Significance: The significance of the Cedar Point Lighthouse lies in the history of navigation and commerce in the Chesapeake Bay. Additionally, the shell of a building which remained in 1981 had some architec... More

Cape Spencer Lighthouse, Hoist House

Cape Spencer Lighthouse, Hoist House

Survey number: HAER AK-24-C Public domain photograph - historical image of Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 36001, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 36001, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-T Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 36001, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 36001, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-T Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 36001, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 36001, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-T Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 36001, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 36001, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-T Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Boon Island Light Tower, Cape Neddick, York County, ME

Boon Island Light Tower, Cape Neddick, York County, ME

Significance: Site has been in continuous use as light station since 1812. Tower is typical mid 19th century lighthouse structure of a kind rapidly becoming obsolete. Survey number: HABS ME-122 Building/stru... More

[Young George Wingate Weeks of Company D, 8th Maine Infantry Regiment with drum in front of painted backdrop showing shoreline with house and lighthouse]

[Young George Wingate Weeks of Company D, 8th Maine Infantry Regiment ...

Photo shows identified soldier in Union uniform. More information is in "Glimpses of Soldiers' Lives," SoldierbiosWeeks.html Case: Berg, no. 7-10. Additional information in collections file. Associated manuscr... More

Key West Post Office, U.S. Customs House, U.S. Courthouse & Lighthouse Quarters, Front Street, Key West, Monroe County, FL

Key West Post Office, U.S. Customs House, U.S. Courthouse & Lighthouse...

Significance: A fine example of late nineteenth century eclectic architecture with features of both the Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque styles. Survey number: HABS FL-187 Building/structure dates: ... More

Key West Post Office, U.S. Customs House, U.S. Courthouse & Lighthouse Quarters, Front Street, Key West, Monroe County, FL

Key West Post Office, U.S. Customs House, U.S. Courthouse & Lighthouse...

Significance: A fine example of late nineteenth century eclectic architecture with features of both the Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque styles. Survey number: HABS FL-187 Building/structure dates: ... More

Key West Post Office, U.S. Customs House, U.S. Courthouse & Lighthouse Quarters, Front Street, Key West, Monroe County, FL

Key West Post Office, U.S. Customs House, U.S. Courthouse & Lighthouse...

Significance: A fine example of late nineteenth century eclectic architecture with features of both the Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque styles. Survey number: HABS FL-187 Building/structure dates: ... More

Green's Ledge Lighthouse, Long Island Sound, Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT

Green's Ledge Lighthouse, Long Island Sound, Norwalk, Fairfield County...

Significance: Green's Ledge Lighthouse, built 1902, is significant as an example of a pre-fabricated, conical, cast-iron light tower built on a cylindrical cast-iron and concrete foundation. That design was de... More

Liston Range Rear Light, County Road 2, Biddles Corner, New Castle County, DE

Liston Range Rear Light, County Road 2, Biddles Corner, New Castle Cou...

Significance: The Liston Range Rear Light merits attention for two reasons. First, it is a river range light a type virtually ignored in the historical literature on lighthouses. Secondly, it is a wrought i... More

Liston Range Rear Light, County Road 2, Biddles Corner, New Castle County, DE

Liston Range Rear Light, County Road 2, Biddles Corner, New Castle Cou...

Significance: The Liston Range Rear Light merits attention for two reasons. First, it is a river range light a type virtually ignored in the historical literature on lighthouses. Secondly, it is a wrought i... More

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28419, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28419, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-R Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Libby Island Light Station, At southern tip of Libby Island at entrance to Machias Bay, Machiasport, Washington County, ME

Libby Island Light Station, At southern tip of Libby Island at entranc...

Survey number: HABS ME-218 Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

North Point Lighthouse, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI

North Point Lighthouse, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI

2003 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The North Point Lighthouse represents a time within Milwaukee history when maritime travel was quite vital to the economy. It was in an era when waterways we... More

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter FIR, Puget Sound Area, Seattle, King County, WA

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter FIR, Puget Sound Area, Seattle, King County, W...

Photos 1-33 were taken while the FIR was mothballed at the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in Benicia, California. Significance: Designed a National Historic Landmark for her exceptional national significance, the FIR... More

Fort Hamilton, Southwest Circular Bastion, Underneath Rose Island Lighthouse, Newport, Newport County, RI

Fort Hamilton, Southwest Circular Bastion, Underneath Rose Island Ligh...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N928 Survey number: HAER RI-58-C Building/structure dates: 1798-1800 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1869 Subsequent Work National R... More

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28406, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28406, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-P Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Copper Harbor Light, Hays Pointat end of Norland Trail, Copper Harbor, Keweenaw County, MI

Copper Harbor Light, Hays Pointat end of Norland Trail, Copper Harbor,...

Significance: This steel skeleton light tower is part of a system of 20th-century Lake Superior navigational aids. Situated just west of the existing 1866 Copper Harbor Lighthouse and on the approximate site o... More

Ham's Bluff Lighthouse, Keeper's Quarters, Marron Ridge of Ham's Bluff, North Star, St. Croix, VI

Ham's Bluff Lighthouse, Keeper's Quarters, Marron Ridge of Ham's Bluff...

Significance: The significance of the two auxiliary buildings is their association with the Ham's Bluff Lighthouse. The Lighthouse was put into operation in 1913 by the Danish government in response to the bui... More

Ham's Bluff Lighthouse, Keeper's Quarters, Marron Ridge of Ham's Bluff, North Star, St. Croix, VI

Ham's Bluff Lighthouse, Keeper's Quarters, Marron Ridge of Ham's Bluff...

Significance: The significance of the two auxiliary buildings is their association with the Ham's Bluff Lighthouse. The Lighthouse was put into operation in 1913 by the Danish government in response to the bui... More

Sandy Hook Lighthouse, Fort Hancock, Fort Hancock, Monmouth County, NJ

Sandy Hook Lighthouse, Fort Hancock, Fort Hancock, Monmouth County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-263 Survey number: HABS NJ-326 Building/structure dates: 1764 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000468

Cape Spencer Lighthouse, Lighthouse

Cape Spencer Lighthouse, Lighthouse

Survey number: HAER AK-24-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cape Spencer Lighthouse, Lighthouse

Cape Spencer Lighthouse, Lighthouse

Survey number: HAER AK-24-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cape Spencer Lighthouse, Lighthouse

Cape Spencer Lighthouse, Lighthouse

Survey number: HAER AK-24-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cape Arago Lighthouse, Gregory Point, Charleston, Coos County, OR

Cape Arago Lighthouse, Gregory Point, Charleston, Coos County, OR

See also HAER OR-156 for footbridge leading to lighthouse Significance: Completed in 1934, the Cape Arago Lighthouse was the third light constructed at the Cape Arago Light Station that was established in 1866.... More

Cape Arago Lighthouse, Gregory Point, Charleston, Coos County, OR

Cape Arago Lighthouse, Gregory Point, Charleston, Coos County, OR

See also HAER OR-156 for footbridge leading to lighthouse Significance: Completed in 1934, the Cape Arago Lighthouse was the third light constructed at the Cape Arago Light Station that was established in 1866.... More

Faro de Punta Mulas, Punta Mulas, Isabel Segunda, Vieques Municipio, PR

Faro de Punta Mulas, Punta Mulas, Isabel Segunda, Vieques Municipio, P...

Significance: The structure was built in 1895. Its background is the capital city of Vieques, Isabel II, and the central hills of the island. Survey number: HAER PR-15 Building/structure dates: 1895 Initial ... More

Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort Lighthouse, Ingalls Road, Hampton, Hampton, Virginia

Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort Lighthouse, Ingalls Road, Hampton, Hamp...

Survey number: HABS VA-595-J National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000912

Superintendent of Lighthouses Dwelling, Punta Puntilla, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Superintendent of Lighthouses Dwelling, Punta Puntilla, San Juan, San ...

Significance: No conclusive evidence has been found about the construction date of the Lighthouse Superintendent's Dwelling, also known as QS 1 (at the U.S. Coast Guard San Juan Base). The Real Estate Records ... More

Plymouth Light, Gurnet Point, Plymouth, Plymouth County, MA

Plymouth Light, Gurnet Point, Plymouth, Plymouth County, MA

Significance: Plymouth Light, built in 1843, is significant as the oldest timber-framed lighthouse in the United States. It is located on the Gurnet, a strategic coastal location that has been the site of fort... More

Faro de Punta Borinquen, Punta Borinquen, Borinquen, Ponce Municipio, PR

Faro de Punta Borinquen, Punta Borinquen, Borinquen, Ponce Municipio, ...

Significance: The original lighthouse was built in 1889 in position 18* 29' 26" N - 67* 9' 43" W, very close to the sea in a low sandy point. In 1918 Puerto Rico experienced an earthquake which had its epicente... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

Point Arguello Coast Guard Rescue Station, Lompoc, Santa Barbara Count...

Drawings delineated by R. Johnson, A. Borgo, 1980 Significance: The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Station and Lookout Tower at Point Arguello, California, was established on December 17, 1936, and ceased normal opera... More

Marshall Space Flight Center, Saturn Propulsion & Structural Test Facility, East Test Area, Huntsville, Madison County, AL

Marshall Space Flight Center, Saturn Propulsion & Structural Test Faci...

Survey number: HAER AL-129-D National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 85002804

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28501, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28501, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-B Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28501, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28501, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-B Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28501, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28501, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-B Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28501, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28501, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-B Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Isla de Mona Light, Mona Island, Cabo Rojo, Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR

Isla de Mona Light, Mona Island, Cabo Rojo, Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR

Significance: Mona Island Light is the only existing lighthouse for which two entirely different plans were drawn between 1885-1886. The first plan called for a 2nd class light, 22 miles range light beam, 3 ke... More

Isla de Mona Light, Mona Island, Cabo Rojo, Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR

Isla de Mona Light, Mona Island, Cabo Rojo, Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR

Significance: Mona Island Light is the only existing lighthouse for which two entirely different plans were drawn between 1885-1886. The first plan called for a 2nd class light, 22 miles range light beam, 3 ke... More

Isla de Mona Light, Mona Island, Cabo Rojo, Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR

Isla de Mona Light, Mona Island, Cabo Rojo, Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR

Significance: Mona Island Light is the only existing lighthouse for which two entirely different plans were drawn between 1885-1886. The first plan called for a 2nd class light, 22 miles range light beam, 3 ke... More

Isla de Mona Light, Mona Island, Cabo Rojo, Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR

Isla de Mona Light, Mona Island, Cabo Rojo, Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR

Significance: Mona Island Light is the only existing lighthouse for which two entirely different plans were drawn between 1885-1886. The first plan called for a 2nd class light, 22 miles range light beam, 3 ke... More

Isla de Mona Light, Mona Island, Cabo Rojo, Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR

Isla de Mona Light, Mona Island, Cabo Rojo, Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR

Significance: Mona Island Light is the only existing lighthouse for which two entirely different plans were drawn between 1885-1886. The first plan called for a 2nd class light, 22 miles range light beam, 3 ke... More

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28416, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28416, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-C Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28416, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28416, East en...

Survey number: HAER FL-8-5-C Building/structure dates: 1956 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84003872

Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse, Mouth of Patapsco River, Riviera Beach, Anne Arundel County, MD

Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse, Mouth of Patapsco River, Riviera Beach, A...

Significance: Built in 1856, the Seven-Foot Knoll Lighthouse was the second screwpile structure built by the U.S. Lighthouse Service. The present structure contains some elements of the original cast-iron stru... More

Auxiliary Fishing Schooner "Evelina M. Goulart", Essex Shipbuilding Museum, 66 Main Street, Essex, Essex County, MA

Auxiliary Fishing Schooner "Evelina M. Goulart", Essex Shipbuilding Mu...

Significance: The EVELINA M. GOULART is an example of what is sometimes called a "transitional schooner." These vessels bridged a gap during a period of transition in the history of shipbuilding in America fro... More

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, East end of Lighthouse ...

Significance: Launch Complex 17 has played a key role in the American space program by supporting over 260 launches since 1957. Constructed in 1956 and 1957, the complex originally supported the Air Force's Th... More

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, East end of Lighthouse ...

Significance: Launch Complex 17 has played a key role in the American space program by supporting over 260 launches since 1957. Constructed in 1956 and 1957, the complex originally supported the Air Force's Th... More

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, East end of Lighthouse ...

Significance: Launch Complex 17 has played a key role in the American space program by supporting over 260 launches since 1957. Constructed in 1956 and 1957, the complex originally supported the Air Force's Th... More

Section of Bermuda Lighthouse Tower (Gibbs Hill); and Cast Iron Lighthouse Morant Point, Jamaica

Section of Bermuda Lighthouse Tower (Gibbs Hill); and Cast Iron Lighth...

Illus. in: Plates Accompanying Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Improvements in the Lighthouse System and Collateral Aids to Navigation, detail of plate 25, (left side). On lower right: Lith. by E... More

Section of lenticular light the 4th order with its lantern for harbours, bays & rivers

Section of lenticular light the 4th order with its lantern for harbour...

Illus. in: Plates Accompanying Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Improvements in the Lighthouse System and Collateral Aids to Navigation, detail of plate 16, (center top). On lower right: Lithy. by... More

The light-house at Cape Chersonese - looking south / W. Simpson del. ; T.G. Dutton lith.

The light-house at Cape Chersonese - looking south / W. Simpson del. ;...

Print shows a ship run aground before the lighthouse on Cape Chersonese, with men in rowboats attempting to pull the ship free. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most graci... More

Top of the Washington Monument. Setting the capstone / Alex. Millar, del.

Top of the Washington Monument. Setting the capstone / Alex. Millar, d...

Print showing men gathered on the scaffolding of the Washington Monument, as those at the very top install the capstone. Q1787 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Alexander Millar, Washington, D.C.

[From new lighthouse, Swinemunde, Pomerania, Germany (i.e., Świnoujście, Poland)]

[From new lighthouse, Swinemunde, Pomerania, Germany (i.e., Świnoujści...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905, where Pomerania is misspelled Pommeraina. Print no. "8380". Forms part of: Views of Germa... More

Light-house, Bois Blanc Park - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Light-house, Bois Blanc Park - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 016727. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Bartlett Tower, Dartmouth Park, Hanover, N.H.

Bartlett Tower, Dartmouth Park, Hanover, N.H.

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Aerial view of Tybee Island, Georgia, and the Tybee Island Lighthouse

Aerial view of Tybee Island, Georgia, and the Tybee Island Lighthouse

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is one of seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers, though highly modified in the mid 1800s. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Pho... More

Harbor entrance, Buffalo, N.Y - Public domain image of a steam boat

Harbor entrance, Buffalo, N.Y - Public domain image of a steam boat

Photo shows an inbound steamer called Pearl. (Source: C. Seavey, 2017) Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "95" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 012920. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Light house, Tarrytown, N.Y., The

Light house, Tarrytown, N.Y., The

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 073009. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Lighthouse Portland Head Light, Detroit publishing company photo

Lighthouse Portland Head Light, Detroit publishing company photo

Locale and date based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29873. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 016152. Gift; Sta... More

Windmill Point near Prescott, Ontario - stereocsopic card

Windmill Point near Prescott, Ontario - stereocsopic card

H115932 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 16025. Copyright 1908 by Keystone View Co.

g. Lodeĭnoe Pole. Pami︠a︡tnik Imperatoru Petru I. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡]

g. Lodeĭnoe Pole. Pami︠a︡tnik Imperatoru Petru I. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imper...

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

Frank and Millie Schubert survey New York harbors from 85 feet up, in front of the giant light they tend / photo by Roger Higgins.

Frank and Millie Schubert survey New York harbors from 85 feet up, in ...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Two men near mounted crane lifting boat out of water at Romer Shoals Lighthouse in New York harbors lower bay] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Al. Ravenna.

[Two men near mounted crane lifting boat out of water at Romer Shoals ...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Carol M. Highsmith - Haceta Head Lighthouse, Yachats, Oregon

Carol M. Highsmith - Haceta Head Lighthouse, Yachats, Oregon

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Lighthouse is located on the Oregon coast 13 miles nort... More

Agate Bay Lighthouse, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Agate Bay Lighthouse, Two Harbors, Minnesota

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Carol M. Highsmith - Portland Head Light, Portland, Maine

Carol M. Highsmith - Portland Head Light, Portland, Maine

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

An old lighthouse stands on a spit of land at the Marina, San Francisco, California

An old lighthouse stands on a spit of land at the Marina, San Francisc...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Point Judith Lighthouse, Narragansett, Rhode Island

Point Judith Lighthouse, Narragansett, Rhode Island

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Eagle Harbor Lighthouse, Michigan

Carol M. Highsmith - Eagle Harbor Lighthouse, Michigan

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

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