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33035. (large matted photos) U.S. Area Lighthouses. 11″ x 14″

26353. (copy photo) Block Island Southeast Lighthouse.

26107d. [cabinet photograph] c.1900. Life-Saving Service Surfman, Narragansett Pier Life Saving Station, Narragansett, Rhode Island.

2179g. (photo) Coast Guard Lifeboat Station Block Island, Rhode Island c.1967

32177. (document) U.S. House of Representatives, Washington. March 5, 1896.

22328. [newspaper accounts] GERMANY SURRENDERS – Armistice Signed, Kaiser and Son Flee to Holland; Reds Seize Berlin. Providence Daily Journal. November 11, 1918.

6711. [Rhode Island Colonial Laws / Light Houses] August, 1772. At the General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantation in New England…. Newport. (1772)

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

2760. Parker, Lt. W. J. Lewis, USCG. THE GREAT COAL SCHOONERS OF NEW ENGLAND – 1870 – 1909. Copyright, 1948 by The Marine Historical Association, Inc.

2144. Sweetser, Kate Dickinson. Ten American Girls From History. Harper & Brothers. 1917. 1st.

25136. Welch, Wally. THE LIGHTHOUSES OF RHODE ISLAND. Apopka. 1987.

32026. (mounted photo) U.S. Navy or Revenue Cutter Service Seaman Rhode Island c.1905.

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

15228. Richmond, Arthur P. Lighthouses and Lightships of Rhode Island. Schiffer. 2015

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

3054. (aerial photo) Block Island Sandy Point North Lighthouse c.1972.

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

22510. Marcus, John. LIGHTHOUSES OF NEW ENGLAND – Your Guide to Lighthouses of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Long Island. Stillwater. 2001.

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.

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

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

22164. Thompson, Courtney. LIGHTHOUSES OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND- Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut – A Pictorial Guide. 2002

22329. [newspaper accounts] PRESIDENT ASSASSINATED IN DALLAS….OSWALD SLAIN IN Dallas Police Hdq. 1963.

7133. Davidson, Donald W. LIGHTHOUSES OF NEW ENGLAND – From the Maritimes to Montauk. Peninsula Press. 1993

2513 Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. Narragansett Bay – Its Historic and Romantic Associations.

23388. [commemorative stein] c.1900. An unusual, petite, bright commemorative mug or stein, featuring a beautiful raised relief image of Point Judith Lighthouse, Rhode Island.

2362. [document] Very early Colonial Lighthouse letter dated Treasury Department, Revenue Office, [Washington DC] May 1794.

6629. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. UNITED STATES COAST PILOT 3. Sandy Hook to Cape Henry.

PA-17. Lighthouse Service. LIST OF BEACONS, BUOYS AND DAY MARKS IN THE THIRD LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. 1899.

20280. SCENES IN BRIDGEPORT, STRATFORD, AND MILFORD.

20394. Munro, Wilfred H., PICTURESQUE RHODE ISLAND. Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Scenery and History of its Cities, Towns and Hamlets, and of Men who have made them famous.

22315. [newspaper accounts] THE GREAT HURRICANE AND TIDAL WAVE –September 1938

26107a. [cabinet photograph] c.1900. Life-Saving Service Surfman, Narragansett Pier Life Saving Station, Narragansett, Rhode Island.

26107f. [photograph] c.1900. Original posed photograph of three Life-Saving Service Surfman, Narragansett Pier Life Saving Station, Narragansett, Rhode Island.

26107e. [cabinet photograph] c.1900. Life-Saving Service Surfman, Narragansett Pier Life Saving Station, Narragansett, Rhode Island.

23152a. Champlin, Richard L., SOME GUARDIANS OF THE EAST BAY. Newport. 1971

C6375. Henry, Joseph. A SUMMARY OF RESEARCHES IN SOUND: Conducted in the Service of THE UNITED STATES LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD, by Joseph Henry During the Years 1865 to 1877

24367d na. FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES LIFE SAVING CORPS IN RHODE ISLAND, MADE TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT ITS JANUARY SESSION, 1906

28281. [glass negative] Brenton Reef Lightship, Newport, Rhode Island. c.1900.

17175. (photo) Coast Guard Cutter C-126 Aground in Narragansett Bay c.1926

27338. (cabinet photo) Brenton Point Life Saving Station and Crew c.1890

26107b. [cabinet photograph] c.1900. Life-Saving Service Surfman, Narragansett Pier Life Saving Station, Narragansett, Rhode Island.

26107i. [cabinet photograph] Life-Saving Service Surfman, Narragansett Pier Life Saving Station, Narragansett, Rhode Island c.1906.

1341. U.S. Volunteer Life Saving Corps and other, Gorton-Pawtuxet, Rhode Island c.1910

2699. D’Entremont, Jeremy. THE LIGHTHOUSES OF RHODE ISLAND. Beverly. 2006

29325. Karentz, Varoujan. Beavertail Light Station on Conanicut Island. Booksurge. 2008.

12211. Wood, Allan. New England Lighthouses: Famous Shipwrecks, Rescues, & Other Tales. Schiffer. 2012

29368c. (lot 8 glass projection slides) United States Signal Service Stations c.1878 – 1898.

2338b. Grant, John. STAYING AT A LIGHTHOUSE – America’s Most Romantic Lighthouse Inns. Guilford. 2005

26295. (pin dish) c.1900. “Life Saving Station, Newport , RI .”

27132. [commemorative spoon] c. 1906. “Quonochontaug, Rhode Island Life Saving Station”

924b. [commemorative cup/saucer] c.1890 “Lime Rock Light, Home of Ida Lewis, Newport , R.I. ”.

22140. Skomal, Lenore. THE KEEPER OF LIME ROCK – The Remarkable True Story of Ida Lewis, America’s First Official Female Lighthouse Keeper and the First Woman to Win a Congressional Medal. Philadelphia. 2002

10144. (halftone print) Ida Lewis, Famous Lighthouse Heroine. c.1895.

11460. (copy photo) Newport Harbor (Goat Island) Lighthouse, Rhode Island c.1890’s view.

1376. Licameli, Doris. Rowing To The Rescue: The Story of Ida Lewis, Famous Lighthouse Heroine. 2011.

12181. Karentz, Varoujan. The Life Savers – Rhode Island’s Forgotten Service. Amazon. 2012

12454b. (stereoview) Ida Lewis, Famous Lighthouse Heroine. c.1869 by J.A. Williams.

1380. (souvenir bowl) c.1898. “Quonochontaug, Rhode Island Life Saving Station”.

1341. [lot 6 glass projection slides] U.S. Volunteer Life Saving Corps and other, Gorton-Pawtuxet, Rhode Island c.1910.

13125. (lot 2 photos) Narraganset Bay Ferry Landings, Rhode Island c.1950.

13376. (photo) World’s Largest Buoy Gets Ready for Winter, Point Judith, Rhode Island c.1924.

721f. Longo, Mildred Santille. PICTURE POSTCARD VIEWS OF RHODE ISLAND LIGHTHOUSES AND BEACONS TOGETHER WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIFESAVING STATIONS. 1990

2359c. (souvenir plate) “Ida lewis Light House, Newport” c.1900.

2359d. (souvenir plate) Lime Rocks Light, Home of Ida Lewis, Newport, R.I.” c.1900.

12454d. (stereoview) Ida Lewis, Famous Lighthouse Heroine. c.1869 by Kilburn Brothers.

15144. (photo) Coast Guard Boathouse near Newport, Rhode Island Following Collision by Peruvian Freighter c.1979.

2131b. Brewerton, George D., IDA LEWIS, THE HEROINE OF LIME ROCK. Newport. 1869

2103b. LeGarde, Ellen. A DAY WITH IDA LEWIS. The Ladies’ Home Journal. July, 1890

8232b. (souvenir creamer) U.S. Life Saving Station Quonochontaug, Rhode Island c.1900.

15194. Real Photo Postcards ~ Relocation of South East Lighthouse Block Island, RI c.1993.

16116. (mounted photo) U.S. Light-House Establishment. Block Island Southeast Lighthouse, RI c.1890’s.

16101. (Copy photo from original) Surfboat and Breeches Buoy Apparatus, Brenton Point Life-Saving Station, Prices Neck, Newport, Rhode Island c.1908.