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613e,f. (tobacco label) Fabrica de Tabacos, Moro Light, Superiores, cigar box label c.1916

6586. Woodcut Engravings – Lighthouses – Lifeboats

33108. (engraved illustration) Whale’s-back Lighthouse, Portsmouth, New Hampshire c.1880

2787b. (photogravure) Portland Head Lighthouse, Maine. c.1900 by Lamson

2259. Historic Lighthouse Architectural Prints / Keeper’s Implements

22529b. (print) Telescopic View of Cape Poge Lt. S.W. ¼ W. (Compass). 1855 U.S. Coast Survey Illustration

33020. Original Matted Maine Postcards c.1900-1940.

I-03. [lithograph print] c.1908. Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat Pulling to Ship.

33007. (prints) Historic Tenders of the United States Lighthouse Service and the U. S. Coast Guard. c.1970’s.

515. (large fold out plates) [from] Jenkins, Lieut. Thornton A. and Richard Bache. A REPORT RELATIVE TO THE LIGHT-HOUSE SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES. [H. R. Doc. No. 222]. August 6, 1846.

33005. (engraving) Boston Light House c.1789. “A South West View of the Lighthouse Situate at the Entrance of Boston Harbor… Engraved for Massachusetts Magazine for Feb. 1789.”

26153. (print) Grosse Point Lighthouse by David & Molly Anderson. Numbered 31 of 250.

23502. SKETCHES IN A LIGHTHOUSE. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. March 27, 1875.

23516. LIGHTHOUSES FROM MAINE TO FLORIDA. Once a Week. October 13, 1894.

21363. [woodcut engravings]. Life-Saving Service from Harper’s New Monthly Magazine etc. c.1870’s.

907c. NEW YORK VOLUNTEER LIFE-SAVING CORPS – NEW STATION AT PIER TWENTY-EIGHT, EAST RIVER . Harper’s Weekly. April 19, 1879

20377. SKETCHES FROM THE GREAT EXPOSITION – THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. Scientific American Supplement. September 9, 1876.

24110. [engraving] [lighthouse] NEW YORK-BAY FROM STATEN ISLAND NEAR THE LIGHTHOUSE. By John Poppel Sculpsit. c.1850

11218. American Tobacco Company, Lighthouse Series Cigarette Cards c.1910.

9256. [fold-out plate] lighthouse construction c.1845.

2356. [engraving] SOUTH-WALL LIGHT-HOUSE. By W. H. Bartlett [Great Britain]. c.1850’s

29210. (gravure print) U. S. Weather Bureau Central Office, Washington, D.C. The Mentor. 1916

24354. [engraving] PEAKED HILL BARS LIFE SAVING STATION. c.1890. From The New England Magazine, April 1890

2175. Rideing, William H., SAFETY ON THE ATLANTIC. Scribner’s Magazine. New York. June 1891.

24103. Smith, Captain Horatio Davis [Commanding the Revenue Cutter Morrill.]. THE UNITED STATES REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE. The Century Magazine. Nd. c.1900

20276. Nicholls Kyle, Joanna R., OUR COAST POLICE – The U. S. Revenue Cutter Service in its Routine Work and as an Auxiliary to the Navy. Overland Monthly Magazine. November 1903.

21443. Nordhoff, Charles. “THE FARALLON ISLANDS”. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. April 1874.

14307. (color lithograph) THE LIGHTSHIP by Edward Moran. Copyright 1894 by Montague Marks, New York.

872c. (cover disbound) SURFMAN PATROLLING THE SHORE. The Saturday Evening Post. November 6, 1926

3028. [engraving] INSIDE A LIGHTHOUSE – CLEANING THE SILVER REFLECTORS. Scientific American Supplement, No. 429. March 22, 1884

8481. [4 woodcut engravings] HIGHLAND LIGHT, TRURO, MASS., RACE POINT LIGHT, WINDMILL NEAR HIGHLAND LIGHT, TRURO BEACH.

21134b. LAUNCHING OF THE LIFE-BOAT. Harper’s Weekly. April 19, 1902.

7378f. [engraving] [Mount] DESERT ROCK LIGHT HOUSE, MAINE

9257d. THE UNITED STATES LIGHT HOUSE SERVICE – Its History, Growth and Methods. Part II. Scientific American Supplement. December 2, 1916.

578d. Lawrence , Charles A., THE BUILDING OF MINOT’S LEDGE LIGHTHOUSE. October 1896.

9479e. LIGHT BOAT AT MINOT’S LEDGE. Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. July 12, 1851.

3164. Kobbe’, Gustav. “LIFE ON THE ( Nantucket ) SOUTH SHOAL LIGHT-SHIP”.

6593. Kobbe, Gustav. HEROISM IN THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE

27121. LIFE SAVING STATION AT RYE BEACH , NEW HAMPSHIRE . Harper’s Weekly. June 27, 1874.

9282b,c. FLOATING BEACONS [LIGHTSHIPS] AND LUMINOUS BUOYS

9310. Tolman, Albert W., WITH ONE OAR

9314. SUMMER LIFE AT NANTUCKET

21134b. LAUNCHING OF THE LIFE-BOAT

720. BEACONS ALONG THE SOUTHERN COAST. Harper’s Weekly. January 16, 1892.

8481. [4 woodcut engravings] HIGHLAND LIGHT, TRURO, MASS., RACE POINT LIGHT, WINDMILL NEAR HIGHLAND LIGHT, TRURO BEACH

8317. Stewart, Charles. A LIFE-SAVING STATION

7258b. THE UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE

9311. Claudy, C. H., HOW THE LIGHT WAS TURNED

21217. A LIGHTHOUSE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE

20280. SCENES IN BRIDGEPORT, STRATFORD, AND MILFORD

21216. A LIGHTHOUSE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE AT NIKOLAJEFF

9257d. THE UNITED STATES LIGHT HOUSE SERVICE – Its History, Growth and Methods. Part II

2287a,b. MISS. IDA LEWIS OF LIME ROCK LIGHTHOUSE

2299a,b. [Fort Morgan Lighthouse, Alabama] FARRAGUT OFF MOBILE

23281. COAST AND LIGHTHOUSE ILLUMINATION IN FRANCE

23280a,b. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MARINE LIGHTING – PARTS I, II, III

22576b. THE TRINITY SHOALS LIGHTHOUSE. Scientific American. December 18, 1875

2355. HUMANE AND NOBLE WORK OF THE LIFE-SAVING CREWS

6235. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF ELECTRICITY AS AN INDUSTRIAL ART by Schuyler S. Wheeler

23179. THE ELECTRIC-LIGHT, ST. CATHERINE’S POINT, ISLE OF WIGHT

6272d. SAVED FROM THE WRECK

9331b. DESTRUCTION OF THE IRON LIGHTHOUSE, ON MINOT ’S LEDGE, BOSTON HARBOR

21376. [Coast Guardsman cover]

21403c. [Massachusetts Humane Society] THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE ON THE MASSACHUSETTS COAST – THE NIGHT ALARM: RUNNING OUT THE LIFEBOAT.

V-01. [print] Large 17 ½” x 21 ½” b/w print taken from original lithograph of Minot’s Ledge Light House, Massachusetts Bay near Cohasset c.1860

5284b. “NEWS FOR THE LIGHT-SHIP” – A PASSING STEAMER DELIVERING PAPERS TO A LIGHT-SHIP. Harper’s Weekly. October 12, 1867

6112. SKETCHES OF THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES – THE LIFE-SAVERS OF AMERICA AND ENGLAND

25181. OUR COAST GUARDIANS. The Illustrated Christian Weekly. November 3, 1888

4576c. THE WRECK OF THE “METIS” – THROWN UP ON THE BEACH. Harper’s Weekly. September 21, 1872

27482. LIFE-SAVING AT ROCKAWAY BEACH. Harper’s Weekly. September 2, 1882

6594d. THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE

2745, 2718. Crofton, M. THE UNITED STATES LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE. Once A Week [Newspaper]. April 12 & 19, 1892 Part I & Part II

27486. Merriman’s Improved Water-Proof Dress and Life Preserver. Scientific American. January 14, 1871.

8408c. AMERICAN LIGHTHOUSES. Scientific American. November 15, 1873