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33138. (lot 9 glass slides) United States Lighthouse Service Related Glass Projection Lantern Slides c.1910.

33107. (lot 16 photos/cards) Lighthouse, Life-Saving Crews, Coast Guard c.1930-1950.

12393c. (photo) Station Crew, U.S. Coast Guard, Coskata Station, Nantucket c.1920.

33094. Railton, Arthur R. Gay Head Light Gets The Wondrous Fresnel. The Dukes County Intelligencer. May 1982.

26327. Bunting, W. H. THE CAMERA’S COAST – Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England. Historic New England. 2006

33085. Lancaster, Clay. Nantucket in the Nineteenth Century – 180 Photographs and Illustrations. Dover. 1979

23530. na. NANTUCKET A LANDMARK LOST – GREAT POINT LIGHTHOUSE by Edouard A. Stackpole. pp. 10-24. Historic Nantucket. July 1984.

33070. Surfside Life Saving Station / Star of the Sea Hostel, Nantucket, Mass. – Historic Structure Report. 2006.

21310. Ludlum, David M. The Nantucket Weather Book. Historic Nantucket Press. 1986.

5335e. Farnham, Joseph E. C. Brief Historical Data And Memories Of My Boyhood Days In Nantucket. Providence. 1923. 2nd. [1915]. Stated Second Edition.

33064. Macy, Obed. The History of Nantucket – Being a Compendious Account of the First Settlement of the Island by the English Together With the Rise and Progress of the Whale Fishery. 1885. 2nd

33061. Douglas-Lithgow, R. A., NANTUCKET – A HISTORY. New York. 1914. 1st

33050. Simons, Ben (Ed) et al. Sconset: A History. Nantucket Historical Association. 2008

33046. Mooney, Robert F. Nantucket Only Yesterday – An Island View of the Twentieth Century. Wesco. 2000

969. Scoville, Dorothy R., SHIPWRECKS ON MARTHA’S VINEYARD. Gay Head. 1972

33044. Abbott, Katharine Stanley-Brown. Nantucket Summers – The Story of a Family and a Very Special Cottage Called Sunnycliffe. Pinniped Press. 1996

33043. Newhouse, Nancy Anne. We Are Nantucket – Oral Histories of Life on Nantucket Island. Wellington Press. 2002

6686. Morris, Paul C., MARITIME NANTUCKET. A Pictorial History of the “Little Grey Lady of the Sea”. 1996. 264p. DJ. Autographed by the author.

33039. Lamb, Jane. Wauwinet – As it was… is now… and ever shall be! Jane Lamb. 1990

2524. (photo print) Gay Head Light Station, Martha’s Vineyard c.1887 view by Baldwin Coolidge

2844. (press photograph) Brant Point Lighthouse, Nantucket c.1976.

10450b. (cabinet photo) Sankaty Head Lighthouse, Nantucket, Mass. c.1887

1321. (copy photo) Muskeget Life Saving Crew, Nantucket c.1910

10293. (photo) Gay Head Lighthouse, Martha’s Vineyard c.1974.

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

24403b. (chart) Preliminary Sketch [Chart] Showing the Positions of the New South Shoal & Other Dangers Recently Discovered by the Coast Survey c.1851.

10110c. (cabinet photo) Pump Square in Siasconset by Henry S. Wyer c.1890’s.

13314. (glass plate negative) Nantucket Life-Saving Service Keeper Thomas F. Sandsbury c.1870-1890’s.

7197qq. [newspaper] New Life-Saving Stations…New England. The Portland Daily Press, Portland, Maine. October 6, 1873

33021. (paperweight) East Chop Light House, Cottage City, Martha’s Vineyard. c.1900.

33018. [pennant] Nantucket Sankaty Head Lighthouse. c.1930 – 1960.

2637. NANTUCKET’S COSKATA LIFE SAVING CREW REWARDED BY THE GOVERNMENT. Harper’s Weekly. January 21, 1893

20504. Maxwell, Perriton. WATCH-DOG’S OF THE SEA – The Light-Ships of Nantucket Sound and Those Who Man Them. Harper’s Weekly. May 7, 1910.

24156. (illustration) Sankaty Head Lighthouse, Nantucket. National Geographic Magazine c.1944

23520. (article) For Great Safety at Sea. Nantucket Lightship No. 112. Scientific American. July 1935.

7383. (adhesive decal) Nantucket Lightship

32180. (newspaper) Nantucket Journal. August 4, 1881.

456. LETTER FROM THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TRANSMITTING HIS ANNUAL STATEMENTS OF MONEYS PAID OF THE TREASURY DURING THE YEAR 1813 FOR MISCELLANOUS CLAIMS OF CONTRACTS MADE UNDER HIS DIRECTION… Wash. City. 1814.

23168. Drake, Samuel Adams. A BOOK OF NEW ENGLAND LEGENDS AND FOLK LORE. Boston. 1906.

755. Stackpole, Edouard A., YOU FIGHT FOR TREASURE. New York. 1932

2920. Salisbury, Geraldine Gardiner. H. Marshall Gardiner’s Nantucket Post Cards 1910-1940. 1995.

1232. (photo) Great Point Lighthouse, Nantucket c.1986.

2973b. (mounted photo) Sankaty Head Lighthouse, Nantucket, Mass. c.1890

32127. (souvenir teapot) Old Mill at Nantucket, Built 1746”. c.1900

32094. (document) [Nantucket Light House – Great Point, etc] Statement of Contracts Made Relative to Oil, Light Houses, Stakeages, &c…. Revenue Office. January 22nd, 1817. 1p. 12” x 16”.

2727d. (cabinet photo) Gay Head Lighthouse, Martha’s Vineyard c.1880’s.

6264c. Stackpole, Edouard A., LIFE SAVING NANTUCKET . Nantucket . 1972. 295pp. Hard cover, DJ.

32142. Goudie, Doug ‘VB’. ACK in Ashes Nantucket s Great Fire of 1846. 2016. 310p. Soft Wraps.

32097. (free franked envelope) Henry A Dearborn Esq., Superintendent of Light Houses in the State of Massachusetts from David Coffin at Nantucket.

32024. (lot 16 glass slides) United States Signal Service Station Glass Slides c.1898.

31100. (photo) Sankaty Head Lighthouse, Nantucket c.1940.

32001. (mounted photo) U.S. Life Saving Station, Surfside, Nantucket c.1890.

20272a,b,c. Gleason, Sarah C., KINDLY LIGHTS – A History of the Lighthouses of Southern New England . Boston . 1991.

26249. Clark, Admont. LIGHTHOUSES OF CAPE COD, MARTHA’S VINEYARD, NANTUCKET – Their History and Lore. Beverly. 2006.

6744aa, ff,ii. [Topographic Plate]. COAST LINES: PART OF NANTUCKET MASS. US Geological Survey. c.1908.

17147. Mooney, Robert F. and Andre R. Sigourney. THE Nantucket Way. Doubleday. 1980.

12160c. (mounted view) The Old Mill, Nantucket c.1890’s possibly by Harry Platt.

21429. (souvenir saucer) Brant Point Lighthouse, Nantucket c.1900.

2038. [view book] FIFTY GLIMPSES OF NANTUCKET ISLAND FROM RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS. John F. Murphy, Boston. 1897. 47p.

5593. (newspaper) Fear Lightship off Nantucket May Have Sunk…Last Wireless Message to Shore Said that She Was Leaking Badly and in Helpless Condition….

5547. (newspaper) Lightship Crews Lead Very Monotonous Lives….Narrow Escape of Men on Nantucket Shoals Vessel not First in History of Service – Diamond Shoals Ship Once Remained Out Five Months Without Relief….

7276. [An Act for Granting to the United States of America, the Light-house at the entrance of the harbour of Nantucket] ACTS AND LAWS, PASSED BY THE GENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS: BEGUN AND HELD AT BOSTON, IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, ON WEDNESDAY THE TWENTY-SIXTH DAY OF MAY, ANNO DOMINI, 1795.

2719. Page, Victor W. MOTOR BOATS AND BOAT MOTORS – Design, Construction, Operation and Repair. New York. 1920.

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

2726-13. (stereoview) Wreck of the Brig Poinsett on Nantucket September 3, 1870. by J. Freeman.

1057. (mounted photo) Ladies on the Bluffs at Sankaty Head Light Station, Nantucket by Baldwin Coolidge, Photographer c.1890 – 1900.

27465g. (stereoview) Oak Bluffs, Ex Governor Claflin’s House, Martha’s Vineyard c.1870’s by Charles H. Shute & Son, Edgartown.

23194. Claflin, James W. HISTORIC NANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSES: BRANT POINT . Worcester. 2003.

23525. Claflin, James W. HISTORIC NANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSES: Sankaty Head. Worcester. 2003.

27465. (stereoview) View Highlands Baptist Tabernacle, Martha’s Vineyard by Joseph W. Warren.

9904i. AN ACT FOR ERECTING A LIGHT-HOUSE ON THE WEST CHOP OF HOLME’S HOLE HARBOR, IN THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS.

6744qq-2. (topographic map) Tuckernuck Island Quadrangle. Nantucket. 1940.

2401. [Topographic Map]. NANTUCKET QUADRANGLE. U.S. Geological Survey. Nantucket Sheet.

2726aa. (stereoview) Sankaty Head Lighthouse, Nantucket. c.1870.