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27325f. (training manual) United States Coast Guard Third Naval District – Long Island Section. 1944-1945.

33137. (photo) Light Vessel No. 11 Scotland Retired at Staten Island c.1925.

6378. (document) Appointment Light House Keeper, St. Lawrence February 1848.

32168. Obenzinger, Hilton. New York On Fire. Real Comet Press. 1989.

33113. (lot 3 negatives) Montauk Point Lighthouse, Long Island, New York.

23294. (cabinet photo) Barcelona NY Lighthouse and Harbor View c.1900.

2111. (cabinet photo) Life-Saving Crew Launching the Surfboat c.1890.

1940. (photo) Short Beach Life Saving Station (east of Jones Inlet), Long Island, New York c.1910

25127. Life Saving Service surfboat launching from the beach. c.1897

23150. (stereoview). Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse, Somerset, NY. c.1875.

2721. (Set 8 negatives) U. S. Coast Guard Station No. 65, Montauk Point, New York c.1930.

4275. Gonzalez, Ellice B. Storms, Ships & Surfmen – The Life-Savers of Fire Island. Eastern Nation al Park & Monument Assoc. 1982.

DM-51. Swift, Hildegarde H. and Lynd Ward. THE LITTLE RED LIGHTHOUSE AND THE GREAT GRAY BRIDGE. Voyager Books. 1970.

DM-36. Tinney, James and Mary Burdette-Watkins. Seaway Trail Lighthouses: An Illustrated Guide. Seaway Trail, Inc. 1989

2259. Historic Lighthouse Architectural Prints / Keeper’s Implements

2827. (photo) Fire Island Lighthouse, New York.

33026. (lot 2 photos) Colchester Reef Lighthouse, Lake Champlain / Shelburne Museum, Vermont c.1959 – 1989.

873. [plan] DESIGN FOR FLINNS [Flynn’s] KNOLL LIGHT, NEW YORK. October 1838.

24120. [newspaper] PROPOSALS FOR BUILDING A VESSEL TO BE USED AS A FLOATING LIGHT IN LONG ISLAND SOUND. New York Times. July 22, 1837.

21368. Hyde, Charles K., THE NORTHERN LIGHTS – Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes. Lansing, MI. 1986

873. [plan] DESIGN FOR FLINNS [Flynn’s] KNOLL LIGHT, NEW YORK. October 1838.

6594d. THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE. Harper’s Weekly. December 22, 1900.

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

9205. [advertisement] UNITED STATES COAST GUARD 75-FOOT HEAVY CRUISERS. Country Life Magazine. 1925

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

27324. (plot plan) Superintendent of Lighthouses, Third Lighthouse District. SHINNECOCK BAY LIGHT STATION. c.1929.

2342. [document] Very early US Lighthouse Establishment letter dated Treasury Department, Revenue Office, Washington DC Oct 30, 1818 from Samuel Smith, Commissioner of the Revenue, to David Gelston Esq., Superintendent of Light Houses, New York, NY

9174a. [lot 3 documents] Rare set of documents provides a wonderful insight into the politics of appointing men to the early Lighthouse and Life Saving Services. c.1866-1891.

32118. Heden, Karl E. Directory of Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes. Boston. 1966.

PC-196. Swift, Hildegarde H. and Lynd Ward. THE LITTLE RED LIGHTHOUSE AND THE GREAT GRAY BRIDGE. New York. 1942

12435c. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Service Crew, Big Sandy Life-Saving Station, Lake Ontario c.1913.

32117. (map) U.S. Lighthouse Establishment on the Great Lakes. c.1900 view. 10 ½” x 16”

32128. (cabinet photo) U.S. Life-Saving Station (Mecox, Bridgehampton, LI., NY ?) c.1880.

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

31093. (newspaper article) At A Life-Saving Station – A Day With Men Who Risk Their Lives to Save Life.

31097. (postcard) Buffalo Life-Saving Crew in Surfboat Under Sail c.1910.

31063. (glass negative) U.S. Life-Saving Service Drill, Coney Island c.1910’s.

12435b. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Service Crew, Big Sandy Life-Saving Station, Lake Ontario c.1913.

3095. (photo) Niagara Life-Saving Station, Lake Ontario c.1909.

6724. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. UNITED STATES COAST PILOT. Atlantic Coast – Section B. Cape Cod to Sandy Hook .

20207. Quinn, William P., SHIPWRECKS AROUND NEW ENGLAND. Orleans. 1979

22477. [movie film] Large 400-foot roll of 8mm home movie film made in 1954 about boating on Long Island Sound

9434. Bachand, Robert G., NORTHEAST LIGHTS, LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS – RHODE ISLAND TO CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY. Norwalk , Ct. 1989.

27154. Lighthouse Service. LOCAL LIGHT LIST NEW YORK AND APPROACHES. Narragansett Bay to Cape May. Third Lighthouse District. Wash. 1930.

958. Morris, Paul C. and William P. Quinn. SHIPWRECKS IN NEW YORK WATERS A Chronology of Ship Disasters from Montauk Point to Barnegat Inlet from the 1880’s to the 1930’s. Orleans. 1989

22512. DeWire, Elinore. LIGHTHOUSES OF THE MID-ATLANTIC COAST – Your Guide to Lighthouses of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. Stillwater. 2002.

27138b. (mounted photo) Light House at Old Crow Nest, West Point, Hudson River, New York. c.1900.

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

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

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

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

28265. (photo) U.S. Coast Guard Warrant Officer displaying his catch, Niagara Station, NY. c.1925.

7197LL. [newspaper] LIFE BOATS FOR THE COASTLINE. Yankee Farmer. January 21, 1837.

24274. Carse, Robert. PORTS OF CALL. New York. 1967.

20450d. Smith, F. Hopkinson. CALEB WEST MASTER DIVER. New York. 1898.

10132. (document) U. S. Department of Commerce, Light-House Establishmdent, Receipt for Deliveries to Supply Vessel Armeria, to be Turned into Storehouse at Thompkinsville, Staten Island [filled out for] Shinnecock Bay Light Station, Third LH District. c.1910.

1855. D’Entremont, Jeremy. Wave-Swept Lighthouses of New England.

21471. Stonehouse, ,Frederick. WRECK ASHORE – The United States Life-Saving Service On The Great Lakes. Duluth. 1994.

7278c. THE NEW YORK SIGNAL SERVICE STATION. Scientific American. November 2, 1889.

29248. (newspaper) Life-Saving Service – Report of the Chief of the Bureau – Two Hundred and Thirty Five Lives Imperiled, and Only One Lost – An Extension of the Service Contemplated – The Storm Signal and Life-Saving Stations Connected.New York Tribune. December 4, 1873

21266. [dance program] Fourth Annual Masqueraded Ball, Voluntary Life Saving Service, City of New York . November 10, 1928 .

27309. (photo) Lifeboat Station Crew, Oswego Lifeboat Station, New York c.1953

23318. THE BUOY STATION, QUARANTINE LANDING, STATEN ISLAND and THE SANDY HOOK LIGHTSHIP Harper’s Weekly. 1879

11278. (official Coast Guard photo) Christening of U. S. Coast Guard Cutters Alexander Hamilton (WPG-34) and John C. Spencer (WPG-36) c.1937.

14189d. (photo) U.S. Coast Guard Lands Surfboat in Winter, Coast Guard Station Rockaway Point c.1925

1628. (photo) U. S. Coast Guard Capsize Race c.1938

28106. (photo) Barcelona (Portland Harbor) Lighthouse, Lake Erie c.1910

3006. (photo) Chief John J. Gibbs At Rockaway’s Lifeboat Station Explains Operation Of Station’s Self-Righting And Self-Bailing Motor Lifeboat c.1991

29107. (cabinet photo) Surfman, U. S. Life Saving Service by Armour, Oswego, New York. c.1890-1910

12435. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Service Crew, Big Sandy Life-Saving Station, Lake Ontario c.1913.

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

911a. THREE YOUNG HEROES – NEW YORK VOLUNTEER LIFE-SAVING CORPS. Harper’s Weekly. January 18, 1879

11313. U. S. Volunteer Life-Saving Corps., City of New York c.1903

29369. (lot 7 glass negatives) U. S. Volunteer Life Saving Corps., Sheepshead Bay Station, New York c.1900