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33158. (paperweight) Chatham Lifesavers Launching Surfboat, Cape Cod c.1900.
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33159. (lot) Misc. items found at site of Cahoons Hollow Life-Saving Station, Wellfleet, Cape Cod.
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Cape Cod Life-Saving Stations – Items Found Over the Years
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33161. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Service Crew, Minot, Mass. c.1910.
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33143. (photo) U.S. Life-Saving Service Station Boatroom, Westport, Washington c.1912.
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24102. United States Life Saving Service / Coast Guard Beach Apparatus Hawser Cutter.
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33150. [chart] PROVINCETOWN HARBOR. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Edition of December 1910.
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SQ-06. U.S. Life Saving Service Night Watchman’s Rattle “USLSS”.
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26345b. (commemorative plate) US Life Saving Station, North Scituate, Massachusetts c.1900.
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4342a. Otis, James. THE LIFE SAVERS. A Story of the United States Life-Saving Service. New York. 1899. 1st. 327 p.
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33120. (tintype – occupational) U.S. Life Saving Service Surfman c.1870. 1/6th plate.
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33118. (lot copy negatives / prints) Drilling with Breeched Buoy & Surfboat, Hampton Beach Life-Saving Station, NH.
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6267.. Howe, M. A. DeWolf. THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS – AN HISTORICAL REVIEW 1785-1916. Boston. 1918.
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2391e. Massachusetts Humane Society porcelain REWARD sign c.1900
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D-15.. U. S. Life Saving Service Lyle Gun Powder Box c.1880.
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D-14.. United States Life-Saving Service. Lyle Bronze Line Gun “C” c.1905
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SQ-05. (framed hand-colored photo) Lifesavers Launching Surfboat c.1901.
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33104. (photo print) U.S. Life-Saving Service McLellan’s Beach Apparatus Wagon.
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33027. (cabinet photo) U.S. Life-Saving Service Station, Evanston, Illinois c.1900.
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28113. (view from photo) U.S. Life Saving Station, Ilwaco Beach (Klipsan Beach), Washington c.1910.
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2652. (photograph) U. S. Life Saving Crew, Breeches Buoy Drill, North Cove / Willapa Bay, Washington c.1910
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24142c. (4 photo views) Life Savers Drilling, Rye Beach, NH. c.1906.
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25127. Life Saving Service surfboat launching from the beach. c.1897
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6283n. [stereoview] Drill of the U. S. Life-Saving Service from the Atlantic Coast. World’s Fair, St. Louis, 1904. c.1907
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21254. [stereoview] United States Life-Saving Station, Michigan City, Indiana. c.1889
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33103. [stereoview] U. S. Life-Saving Service Station and Lighthouse, World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893
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33072. Stover, Doug. Pea Island Life Saving Station, Rodanthe, North Carolina. Coast Guard Station #177. Historic Resource Study. 2008.
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29309. Biggs, Jerry. Rescue and Refuge: Florida. Trent’s Publishing. 2008.
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33055. Van Dorp, Will and Linda Lee. Incomplete Journeys On and Off Plum Island 1873 – 1938
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2445c. United States Life-Saving Service. Lyle Bronze Line Gun “C” c.1900 (3/27 Special price)
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8437. Couch, Danny, Noah Price and Shawn Gray. THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE ON HATTERAS ISLAND. [Sea Chest. Volume 4, Number 2, Winter 1977]
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20385. Merryman, J. H. THE UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE – 1880. Reprint
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4275. Gonzalez, Ellice B. Storms, Ships & Surfmen – The Life-Savers of Fire Island. Eastern Nation al Park & Monument Assoc. 1982.
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2562. (pamphlet) CAPE COD AND ITS LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. Old Home Week. c.1937.
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23165. THE MONOMOY DISASTER The Cape Cod Compass Magazine Including Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket. Volume 32, 1985
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7197qq. [newspaper] New Life-Saving Stations…New England. The Portland Daily Press, Portland, Maine. October 6, 1873
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28309. (printers’ block) U.S. Congressional Life Saving Medal c.1874-1900.
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2117. Carbone, Elisa. STORM WARRIORS. New York. 2001
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8152.. (powder flask) U.S. Life Saving Service – U.S. Coast Guard Powder Flask for Lyle Gun c.1880 – 1915.
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23219h. Bearse, Clarkson P. Sr. THE TRAGEDY OF MONOMOY BEACH or The Graveyard of the Atlantic. Gross Print, Harwich. 1943.
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33011. Greene, Jerome A., Historic Structure Report – Historical Data Component. Little Kinnakeet Life-Saving Station (1874-1915)/Coast Guard Station (1915-1954), Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina. National Park Service. Harpers Ferry. 1987. (Reprint 2005)
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3077. Harbour Lights, Men of the Life Saving Service Keeper / Surfman Replica.
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27361. U. S. Life Saving Service Lyle Gun Folding Octant c.1878-1901.
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2637. NANTUCKET’S COSKATA LIFE SAVING CREW REWARDED BY THE GOVERNMENT. Harper’s Weekly. January 21, 1893
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8207d. (lot 2 books) Chenery, Richard L. III., OLD COAST GUARD STATIONSVOLUME I – VIRGINIA:POPES ISLAND TO FALSE CAPE. 1998. 94p. Soft wraps. (and) Chenery, Richard L. III., OLD COAST GUARD STATIONS VOLUME II – NORTH CAROLINA. 2000.
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33006. [photogravure print] U.S. Life-Saving Service boatroom. c.1890
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23193. Roberts, Norma Elizabeth and Bruce. SHIPWRECKS, DISASTERS AND RESCUES OF THE GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC AND CAPE FEAR. Morehead City. 2001
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13399. O’Neil, Wayne R. Man & The Sea – Shipwrecks of Southwest Washington and Northwest Oregon 1792-1949. 2013. Long Beach.
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961. [historic calendar/blotter] Life-Saving Station at Dorchester Bay. c.1952.
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21363. [woodcut engravings]. Life-Saving Service from Harper’s New Monthly Magazine etc. c.1870’s.
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2639. A NEW LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. The Youth’s Companion. January 20, 1910
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22313. Kimball, Sumner I. [General Superintendent of the United States Life-Saving Service], “JOSHUA JAMES AND THE GREAT STORMS,” The Youth’s Companion. August 26, 1909
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6562f. THE BEACH PATROL. Harper’s Weekly. January 6, 1894.
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20377. SKETCHES FROM THE GREAT EXPOSITION – THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. Scientific American Supplement. September 9, 1876.
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4189. Fish, John Perry. Unfinished Voyages a Chronology of Shipwrecks in the North Eastern United States 1606-1956. 1989. Orleans.
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13135. McAlpine, Ken. Fog. 2012. iUniverse.
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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.
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32169. (copy plans) 1897 Thirty-Four Foot Self-Righting & Self-Bailing Lifeboat c.1897
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8126b. Board of Trade. INSTRUCTIONS RELATING TO THE ROCKET APPARATUS FOR SAVING LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK. London. 1904.
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9104c. Boning, Richard A., JOSHUA JAMES. Baldwin, NY. 1972.
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691g. Smith, Fitz-Henry Jr., STORMS AND SHIPWRECKS IN BOSTON BAY AND THE RECORD OF THE LIFE SAVERS OF HULL. The Bostonian Society Publications, Boston. 1918.
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5324c. Webster, Frank V., DARRY THE LIFE SAVER or THE HEROES OF THE COAST. New York. 1911
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23135. Marden, Charley. REMINISCENCES OF THE LIFE SAVING SERVICE. Atlantic Fisherman Magazine. May 1926
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2704a,b,c,d. Davis, Rebecca Harding. LIFE SAVING STATIONS- History, Anecdotes, and Famous Shipwrecks, Etc. Reprint from Lippincott’s Magazine (Mar. 1876)
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32175. Gibbs, James A. Jr., Shipwwrecks Off Juan De Fuca. Portland., 1968.
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24145. Hurley, George and Suzanne. SHIPWRECKS AND RESCUES ALONG THE BARRIER ISLANDS OF DELAWARE, MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA. Ocean City. 1984
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21459. Barnett, J. P., THE LIFESAVING GUNS OF DAVID LYLE. [Nautical Research Journal. Spring 1972.
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6310g. Shanks, Ralph C. Jr. and Janetta Thompson. LIGHTHOUSES AND LIFEBOATS ON THE REDWOOD COAST. San Anselmo, CA. 1978.
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9202. Foss, William O., THE NORWEGIAN LADY AND THE WRECK OF THE DICTATOR. Norfolk, Va. 1977
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2330. na. FIFTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SEAMEN’S FRIEND SOCIETY…. MAY 6TH, 1878. NY. 1878.
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24354. [engraving] PEAKED HILL BARS LIFE SAVING STATION. c.1890. From The New England Magazine, April 1890
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29102. Nicholls Kyle, Joanna R., OUR SURFMEN. Overland Monthly Magazine. c.1903
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23215a,b. Woods, Amy. SHIPWRECKS ALONG THE NEW ENGLAND COAST. New England Magazine. April 1890
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32162. Quinn, William P., ORLEANS – A SMALL CAPE COD TOWN with an EATRAORDINARY HISTORY. Orleans. 2012.
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32157. na. Directions for Restoring the Apparently Drowned. For Saving Drowning Persons by Swimming to their Relief and for the Treatment of Frostbite as Practiced in the United States Life-Saving Service. U.S. Life-Saving Service. GPO. 1909
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23385. Canfield, Edward J. and Thomas A. Allan. LIFE ON A LONELY SHORE – A History of the Vermilion Point Life-Saving Station. Sault St. Marie. 1991.
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980b. Kobbe’, Gustav. HEROES OF PEACE – VOLUNTEER LIFE-SAVERS. 8p. Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. June 1899.
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32153. (photo) United States Life-Saving Station, Louisville, KY. c.1910
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32154. (photo) Oliver M. Maxam, Assistant Superintendent, U.S. Life Saving Service / US Coast Guard c.1924.
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872c. (cover disbound) SURFMAN PATROLLING THE SHORE. The Saturday Evening Post. November 6, 1926
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32041. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Crew c.1900
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32120. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Station, Kewaunee, Wisconsin c.1910.
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32125. (souvenir cup) U.S. Life Saving Station, North Scituate, Mass. c.1900.
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28372b. (souvenir pin dish) High Head Life Saving Station, Provincetown, Mass c.1900.
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11423c. (souvenir dish) “U. S. Life Saving Station, Salisbury Beach, Mass.” c.1900.
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1591b. STEVENGRAPH VICTORIAN SILK PORTRAIT “Called to the Rescue (A Life Boat Scene)” c. 1879-84.
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12418. (photo) Dobbins type pulling lifeboat, 28ft. version (boat No. 884). Station Ilwaco/Klipsan, Washington c.1910.
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12292g. (photo) U. S. Life Saving Crew, Newport, Oregon c.1912.
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32128. (cabinet photo) U.S. Life-Saving Station (Mecox, Bridgehampton, LI., NY ?) c.1880.
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32134. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Station, Isles of Shoals, NH. c.1900 .
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6264c. Stackpole, Edouard A., LIFE SAVING NANTUCKET . Nantucket . 1972. 295pp. Hard cover, DJ.
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32145. Wilding, Don. Cape Cod and the Portland Gale of 1898. History Press. 2023.
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2445c. United States Life-Saving Service. Lyle Bronze Line Gun “C” c.1900
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20402a,b. [paperweight] U.S. Life Saving Station. Damiscove Island LSS, Maine c.1900
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3125. LIFE-SAVING INVENTIONS- LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY…TRANSMITTING THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON LIFE-SAVING INVENTIONS, CONVENED IN NEW YORK CITY APRIL 8, 1867.
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32043. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Service Launching Surfboat Damariscove, Maine.
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17123b. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Station, Knobbs Beach / Plum Island, Mass. c.1910.
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31093. (newspaper article) At A Life-Saving Station – A Day With Men Who Risk Their Lives to Save Life.
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31097. (postcard) Buffalo Life-Saving Crew in Surfboat Under Sail c.1910.
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32008. (souvenir creamer) U. S. Life Saving Station, Ottowa Point, East Tawas, Michigan c.1900.
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32001. (mounted photo) U.S. Life Saving Station, Surfside, Nantucket c.1890.
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31070. (mounted photo) U. S. Life-Saving Service Surfman #1 New Jersey c.1890-1910.
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31096. (photo) U.S. Life-Saving Station, Fairport, Ohio Lake Erie c.1911.
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31109. (photo) Life Saving Crew in Surfboat, Tawas, Michigan c.1909.
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31127. (photo) Merrimack River Life-Saving Station, Plum Island, Newburyport, Massachusetts c.1900-1910.
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31084. (photo) Visitors Enjoy Life-Saving Service Surfboat on Beach.
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31083. (photo) U. S. Life Saving Station Sandy Hook, New Jersey c.1910.
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31090. (photo) U.S. Life-Saving Service Breeches Buoy Drill.
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31063. (glass negative) U.S. Life-Saving Service Drill, Coney Island c.1910’s.
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31034. (mounted photo) U.S. Life-Saving Service Lifeboat in Station c.1900.
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31054. (copy photo) Life-Saving Service Horse Pulling Surfboat c.1900 view.
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12435b. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Service Crew, Big Sandy Life-Saving Station, Lake Ontario c.1913.
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3114. (photo) U.S. Life-Saving Station and Lighthouse, Coos Bay (Cape Arago), Oregon c.1909.
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28122. [15 glass slide set] The Life-Savers of Cape Cod. c.1902.
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3095. (photo) Niagara Life-Saving Station, Lake Ontario c.1909.
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3098. (photo) U.S. Life-Saving Service Dobbins Lifeboat Ilwaco Beach (Klipsan Beach), Washington c.1908.
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LN- “Wreck Master” Appointment Certificates, Long Island c.1810-1868
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3076. (photo) Life Savers Drill in Surfboat Near Ocean Park, Wash. c.1910.
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SALE – ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE
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27463. [reproduction] U. S. Life Saving Service Station Flag
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6641b. (b/w photo print) Captain Maddock of the Merrimack River Life-Saving Station seated in front of the surfboat in the station’s boatroom.
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28348. Wilkinson, William D. and CDR Timothy R. Dring, USNR (Retired). American Coastal Rescue Craft – A Design History Of Coastal Rescue Craft Used By The United States Life-Saving Service And The United States Coast Guard. 2009
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6641. Wood, Vincent L., PLUM ISLAND RECOLLECTIONS – Views and Reminiscences of Plum Island c.1900 Recounting the Deeds of Capt. Thomas J. Maddock and the Crew of the U. S. Merrimack River Life-Saving Station, Plum Island, Massachusetts. 1995
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FG-02. Early Life-saving Line Gun. Heat Transfer Products Company.
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21134b. LAUNCHING OF THE LIFE-BOAT. Harper’s Weekly. April 19, 1902.
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3166. Giambarba, Paul. SURFMEN AND LIFESAVERS. Centerville . 1967.
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29313. Ryder, Richard G. OLD HARBOR STATION CAPE COD . Norwich . 1990. 1st. 128 p. Soft wraps.
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2488. Kobbe, Gustav. HEROES OF PEACE – A Series of Authentic Instances of Heroism in Every-Day Life. Babylon. c.1920
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2587. Spears, John R., HEROES OF THE SURF. [disbound from Outlook Magazine, 1903.] 7p.
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21458c,d. Johnson, William Wallace. THE UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. New England Magazine. April 1890
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Life Saving – MERRIMACK HUMANE SOCIETY.
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8225. A SERMON DELIVERED BEFORE THE MEMBERS OF THE MERRIMACK HUMANE SOCIETY, AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY MEETING, IN NEWBURYPORT , SEPT. 4, 1804. Joseph Dana. Newburyport . 1804.
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5222b. DISCOURSE DELIVERED BEFORE THE MERRIMACK HUMANE SOCIETY AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY MEETING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1812. John Andrews, A,M., Newburyport , 1812.
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9620. AN ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE MERRIMACK HUMANE SOCIETY AT THEIR ANNUAL MEETING IN NEWBURYPORT , SEPT. 2, 1806, by Samuel Cary. Newburyport . 1806.
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5220a. AN ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE MERRIMACK HUMANE SOCIETY, AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY MEETING, IN NEWBURYPORT , SEPT 3, 1805.
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2122. Peterson, William D., UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE IN MICHIGAN. Arcadia. 2001.
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27468. (commemorative creamer) U. S. Life Saving Station, South Haven, Michigan. c. 1900
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25260b. Dodge, Henry Irving. HEROES OF THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. Woman’s Home Companion. August 1903.
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5200J-b. Life-Saving Service. Report Of The General Superintendent On The Transfer Of The Life-Saving Service To The Navy Department. 1883.
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1234r-3. (document) U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Jerry’s Point Station c.1899.
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1234r-1. (document) U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Jerry’s Point Station c.1899.
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27121. LIFE SAVING STATION AT RYE BEACH , NEW HAMPSHIRE . Harper’s Weekly. June 27, 1874.
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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
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23517. Bennett, Robert F. LIFE-SAVING ALONG THE COAST, 1848-1871: Its New Jersey Beginnings And How It Expanded. Toms River. 2003. 288 p.
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6112. SKETCHES OF THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES – THE LIFE-SAVERS OF AMERICA AND ENGLAND
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25181. OUR COAST GUARDIANS. The Illustrated Christian Weekly. November 3, 1888
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4576c. THE WRECK OF THE “METIS” – THROWN UP ON THE BEACH. Harper’s Weekly. September 21, 1872
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27486. Merriman’s Improved Water-Proof Dress and Life Preserver. Scientific American. January 14, 1871.
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8447. Tate, Suzanne. HOLLY FROM HATTERAS – A Tale of Saving Lives. Nags Head. 1998. 32p.
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2118. Williamson, Sonny. UNSUNG HEROES OF THE SURF – The Lifesaving Services of Carteret County. Marshallberg. 1992.
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1413, 1412. (reproduction cabinet photos) Life Saving Service Boathouse, Coos Bay, Oregon c.1900.
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2245. Griffin , Carl R. III AND Alaric Faulkner. COMING OF AGE ON DAMARISCOVE ISLAND, MAINE . Orono. 1981.
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97197xx8. [newspaper] THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. Portland Transcript. September 21, 1872.
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20347. [newspaper] THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. The Daily Graphic. August 17, 1875.
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9287b. Paine, Ralph D., THE PRAYING SKIPPER, AND OTHER STORIES. New York. 1906
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9240. Wilson, Rufus Rockwell. SEA ROVERS. New York . 1906
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4198, 6581. Dalton, J. W., THE LIFE SAVERS OF CAPE COD. Chatham. 1902. 1st.
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2307. na. ANASTATIC DRAWINGS OF GOLD AND SILVER MEDALS, PRESENTED BY SOVEREIGNS AND PUBLIC BODIES TO CAPT. GEORGE WILLIAM MANBY, F.R.S. FOR SERVICES RENDERED IN THE SAVING OF LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM SHIPWRECK: TO WHICH ARE ATTACHED A FEW OBSERVATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEPOSITING OF THESE MEMORIALS. 1852.
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5200. The following official pamphlets or publications of the U. S. Life-Saving Service are available in photocopies either individually or as a complete set.
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C27450. (copy) United States Life-Saving Service Wreck Reports – Old Harbor Station 1898 – 1913
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11366b. Wyer, William W. Now The Coast Guard. Cape Cod Magazine. February 1917
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27128. H. R. ex. Doc. No. 58. REPORT OF THE LIFE SAVING SERVICE IN REFERENCE TO THE LOSS OF THE STEAMER METROPOLIS. March 1, 1878.
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3086b. (photo) Life-Saving Service Surfman Ready for Drill at Wellfleet, Cape Cod c.1900.
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21471. Stonehouse, ,Frederick. WRECK ASHORE – The United States Life-Saving Service On The Great Lakes. Duluth. 1994.
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7393. Noble, Dennis L. A LEGACY – The United States Life-Saving Service. Wash. 1987
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8181, BR-85. Noble, Dennis L. THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE– The U. S. Life-Saving Service 1878-1915. Annapolis. 1994
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29367. Spears, J. R. and C. H. Claudy. The Life Saving Service and Lighthouses. Bay View Magazine. January 1908
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1234o. (document) U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Jerry’s Point Station c.1899.
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312e. Lamb, Martha J., “THE AMERICAN LIFE SAVING SERVICE”, 17pp., February 1882.
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9155. O’Connor, William D.[Assistant Superintendent of the United States Life-Saving Service.] THE UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE.
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2026c. Spears, John R., TALES OF THE MUSH-ICE-HEROES. Harper’s Weekly. March 2, 1901
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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
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26107a. [cabinet photograph] c.1900. Life-Saving Service Surfman, Narragansett Pier Life Saving Station, Narragansett, Rhode Island.
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26107f. [photograph] c.1900. Original posed photograph of three Life-Saving Service Surfman, Narragansett Pier Life Saving Station, Narragansett, Rhode Island.
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26107e. [cabinet photograph] c.1900. Life-Saving Service Surfman, Narragansett Pier Life Saving Station, Narragansett, Rhode Island.
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29291a,b. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Service Station, Treasury Department Exhibit, World Exposition c.1900.
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29216a,b. (photo) U. S. Life Saving Station.
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27396. [stereoview] Drill of the U. S. Life-Saving Service, Louisiana Purchase Exposition c. 1904.
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920. [stereo view] Life-Saving Station near Cliff House, San Francisco, California.
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6283. [stereo view] Some Operations of the Life-Saving Corps [Service], Jamestown Exposition c.1907
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2018. [stereo view] United States Life-Saving Exhibit, Louisiana Purchase Exposition. c.1904 by Keystone View Company.
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4728.[Lamb, Martha J.], “THE AMERICAN LIFE SAVING SERVICE”, Harpers New Monthly. February 1882.
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6598. Albert, Alphaeus H., RECORD OF AMERICAN UNIFORM AND HISTORICAL BUTTONS Bicentennial Edition.
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22126. Loubat, J.F. THE MEDALLIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1776-1876.
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3086. (photo) Life-Saving Service Surfman Relax as they Wait for Dinner at Wellfleet, Cape Cod c.1900.
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6275. Ralph Shanks, Wick York, Lisa Woo Shanks, editor. THE U. S. LIFE-SAVING SERVICE – HEROES, RESCUES AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE EARLY COAST GUARD. Petaluma. 1996.
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22414g. [pin/ribbon] U. S. Life-Saving Service Surfman’s Mutual Benefit Association c.1900.
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31123. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Service Crew Relaxes, Garibaldi, Oregon c.1912.
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2267. [commemorative coin] 1 ¼” silver coin commemorating the Centennial of the Peak of the U. S. Life Saving Service in Chatham, Cape Cod Mass.
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20230. Farson, Robert H., TWELVE MEN DOWN – Massachusetts Sea Rescues. Yarmouth Port. 2000.
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793. Bennett, Robert F. SURFBOATS, ROCKETS, AND CARRONADES. GPO. 1976
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27268. Claflin, James W. HISTORIC NANTUCKET: SURFSIDE LIFE-SAVING STATION – A History of Nantucket ’s Life-Saving Stations. Volume I. Worcester. 2007.
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13298a,b. (glass plate negative) Surfside Life-Saving Station, Nantucket c.1870’s.
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20179. Freitas, Fred and Dave Ball. WARNINGS IGNORED! The Story of the Portland Gale November, 1898. Self Published 1995.
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2789. THEY HAD TO GO OUT – True Stories of America’s Coastal Life Savers From The Pages of “Wreck & Rescue Journal”. Gwinn. 2007
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6524n. (souvenir creamer) c.1900. “U. S. Life Saving Station, Salisbury Beach, Mass.”.
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5461. Lombard, Asa Cobb Paine. EAST OF CAPE COD . Cuttyhunk. 1976. 157 pp.
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2054. [paperweight] Heavy glass paperweight “Life-Saving Station, Salisbury Beach, Mass.” c.1890
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12479. (mounted photo) Captain Thomas J. Maddock and Crew, Merrimack River Life-Saving Station, Plum Island, Newburyport, Massachusetts c.1900-1910.
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11175. Abbott, Jacob. SOME ACCOUNTS OF FRANCIS’S LIFE-BOATS AND LIFE-CARS. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. 1851.
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835. (souvenir cup) Crumples Island Life Saving Station, Jonesport, Maine c.1900.
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28148. (photo) Damiscove Island Life-Saving Station, Maine.
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1289J. (military uniforms and equipment) The Company of Military Historians. (3 issues) Fall 1973, Fall 1974, Spring 1976
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C27198. THE UNITED STATES LIFE-SAVING SERVICE AND THE FLORIDA HOUSES OF REFUGE. Florida Atlantic University. 1971.
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12239. [reproduction] U. S. Life Saving Service District Number Flag.
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27463M. (miniature reproduction) U. S. Life Saving Service Station Flag for Presentation or Framing. 8” x 16”
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11292. (copy photo) “Schooner wrecked on reefs
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1244. (copy) Treasury Department. U.S. Life-Saving Service. Amended Regulations Relative to Uniform for Employees of the Life-Saving Service.
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6514. (buttons) United States Life-Saving Service
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2384a,b. [stereoview] Some Operations of the Life-Saving Corps, Jamestown Exposition. #14219.
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22386. [glass negative] Treasury Department Exhibit U. S. Life-Saving Service. c.1900
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26137. [original glass plate negative] Life Saving Service Landing the Surfboat. c. 1900-1915
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25111. [photograph] c.1890. Original studio portrait style photograph of a Life-Saving Service Surfman.
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27454. (photo album) Plum Island and Newburyport , Massachusetts c.1890’s.
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2654b. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Station, Tillamook Bay (Barview), Oregon c.1910.
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26127a. (photo) Landing U.S. Life Saving Service Motor Lifeboat, West Coast c.1907-1914.
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24157c. (photo) Point Allerton Life Saving Station c.1890.
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29187. (negative) U.S. Coast Guard Station, Manomet Point, Mass. c.1940.
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2569. (photo) U. S. Life Saving Station.
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29290. (photo) Breeches Buoy and Crotch c.1900.
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2751. [cabinet photograph] c.1900. Original portrait photograph, of Life-Saving Service Surfman, Biddeford Pool, Maine by Philbrick Photography, Biddeford, Maine. c.1890-1910.
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2738b. (photo) Surfboat Underway, Coos Bay, Oregon c.1910.
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29370. (copy photo) LIFE SAVER JOSHUA JAMES WITH CREW, Hull, Massachusetts c.1915.
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28395. (mounted photo) Capt. Thomas J. Maddock and the Crew of the U. S. Merrimack River Life-Saving Station, Plum Island, Massachusetts c.1900.
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2199. [photo on mat] Merrimack River Life-Saving Station, Plum Island, Newburyport, Massachusetts by Gardner Wood Photographer, Groveland, Mass. c.1900-1910.
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378a,b. (set two mounted photos) Life-Saving Service Breeches Buoy Drill, Plum Island, Mass c.1884.
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2769. (photo) U. S. Life Saving Station, Tillamook Bay, Barview, Oregon c.1916.
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2764. [cabinet photograph] c.1900. Original portrait photograph, Life-Saving Service Crew, Quoddy Head, Maine. c.1890-1910
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27183. (lot 5 mounted photos) North Scituate, United States Life Savings Service Station and Crew c.1905.
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27338. (cabinet photo) Brenton Point Life Saving Station and Crew c.1890
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27356. (early framed photograph) U. S. Life Saving Crew Breeches Buoy Drill c.1860-1870 (New Jersey?) .
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28280. (set 3 large mounted photos) U.S. Life Saving Service Surfboat Drill, Appalachian Exposition in Knoxville, Tennessee, 1910.
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7381. Janes, Edward C., WHEN CAPE COD MEN SAVED LIVES. Champaign, IL. 1968
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29204. (program) Exhibition of the United States Life Saving Service Crew, Magnolia, Mass. 1905.
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29180a. (cabinet photo) U.S. Life-Saving Service, Biddeford Pool Station, Maine c.1890-1900.
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2943. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Station, Little Cranberry Island, Maine c.1913.
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28396. (mounted photos) U.S. Life Saving Station and Crew, Ilwaco, Washington c.1900.
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29285. (lot 3 mounted photos) Arena Cove Life-Saving Station, Point Arena, California c.1900.
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RA-414. (mounted photo) North Scituate Life Saving Station c.1890.
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29403. (copy negatives) LIFE SAVER JOSHUA JAMES WITH CREW, Hull , Massachusetts c.1890’s.
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29252a. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Service Type E Motor Lifeboat Dreadnaught (Point Adams LSS, Washington).
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29244. (photo Lot) U.S. Life Saving Service at Exposition c.1900.
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29287. (mounted photo) U.S. Life Saving Service, District Superintendent, 3rd Life-Saving District, Arthur Dominy c.1900.
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29318. (photo) U. S. Life Saving Service Surfmen Posing with Wives c. 1910.
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29258. (lot 11 photos) Damiscove Island Life-Saving station, Maine c.1900.
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29308. (lot 4 glass negatives) Salisbury Beach Life Saving Station, Mass. c.1900.
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29380. (copy photo) LIFE SAVER JOSHUA JAMES WITH CREW, Hull, Massachusetts c.1890’s.
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1043. (2 cabinet photos) U.S. Treasury Department Exhibit U. S. Life-Saving Service. c.1900.
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1068. (photo) U.S. Life-Saving Service Surfboat and Beach Apparatus on the Beach c.1904.
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10390. (photo) Point Bonita Life Saving Station, Sausalito, California c.1900.
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10494. [stereoview] U. S. Life Saving Drill, Yaquina Bay, Oregon c.1900 by Woodard, Clark & Company.
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10503. (photo) U. S. Life Saving Crew, Newport, Oregon c.1912.
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10510. (photo) U. S. Life Saving Crew with three-horse hitch c.1910.
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1078. (engraved photo plate) Peaked Hill Bar Life Saving Station, Provincetown, Cape Cod c.1898
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11206. (framed photograph.) “June 9, 1909. General Superintendent Sumner I Kimball, Assistant Superintendent O.M. Maxim and U.S. Surfmen on steps of Treasury Building.
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11113. (cabinet photo) U.S. Life Saving Station, Scituate area c.1896.
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26107b. [cabinet photograph] c.1900. Life-Saving Service Surfman, Narragansett Pier Life Saving Station, Narragansett, Rhode Island.
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11195. (lot 3 mounted photos) Gloucester, Massachusetts, Life Saving Crew Rescuing Crew of Sloop Urad c.1905.
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2704. Davis, Rebecca Harding. LIFE SAVING STATIONS- History, Anecdotes, and Famous Shipwrecks, Etc.
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11359. [photo] Merrimack River Life-Saving Station, Plum Island, Newburyport, Massachusetts c.1900-1910
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11285. (copy photo) U.S. Life Saving Station, Eagle Harbor, Michigan.
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5397. (newspaper) A WINTER GALE – Wrecks and Loss of Life Along The Coast.
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479. (document) H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 244. RE-IMBURSEMENT OF CREW OF CAHOONS [Hollow] LIFE-SAVING STATION ( Cape Cod ).
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U.S. Life-Saving Service, Light-House Establishment & Lighthouse Service buttons
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7295d. Inglis, William. LIFE-SAVERS ON OLD MALABAR. Harper’s Monthly. c.1907
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1258. (copy) United States Life-Saving Service. Order for Uniform. Form No. 1852. c.1895
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1234c. (document) U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, White Head Station. September 12, 1899
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11155. Carlson, Commander Arnold E. USCG. Captain Joshua James — Lifesaver Nonpareil. United States Naval Institute Proceedings. August 1959.
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8426. Some Operations of the Life-Saving Corps, Jamestown Exposition. #14219. c.1907
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25363. (cabinet photo) North Scituate Life Saving Station c.1890-1910
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1269. [mounted photograph] c.1900. Original portrait photograph, of a U.S. Life-Saving Service Surfman, from the Damariscove Life-Saving Station, Maine c.1900.
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12132. (document) U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Great Boar’s Head (Hampton Beach) Station c.1899
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12179. [photo] Merrimack River Life-Saving Station, Plum Island, Newburyport, Massachusetts c.1900-1910
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1258b. U.S. Life-Saving Service. Order Form for Uniform Form No. 1852 c.1899. Great Boars Head Life-Saving Station, Hampton, NH
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1234i. (document) U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Jerry’s Point Station c.1899
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10257. Menz, Kahterine B. Historic Furnishings Report – Sleeping Bear Point Life-Saving Station: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
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12177. (document) George Frisbie Hoar, Senate of the United States re. Life Saving Service. c. 1893.
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1234L. U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Great Boars Head Life-Saving Station, Hampton, NH. c.1899
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1234J. (document) U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Rye Beach Station c.1900.
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12248a. (document) U.S. Life-Saving Service, Second District, Highland Station, Cape Cod c.1895.
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9139. Means, Dennis R., A HEAVY SEA RUNNING: THE FORMATION OF THE U. S. LIFE-SAVING SERVICE 1846-1878. Journal of the National Archives. Winter. 1987
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4234. Pond, James L., HISTORY OF LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES, AND MILITARY AND NAVAL CONSTRUCTIONS. INVENTED AND MANUFACTURED BY JOSEPH FRANCIS WITH SKETCHES AND INCIDENTS OF HIS BUSINESS LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE …. New York. 1885.
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479. (document) H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 244. RE-IMBURSEMENT OF CREW OF CAHOONS [Hollow] LIFE-SAVING STATION ( Cape Cod ). 1895
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11444. Old Harbor Life-Saving Station – Historic Structure Report. Boston. 1988
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7159. (magazine) THE MENTOR. July 1925. Vol. 13, No. 6. 66 pp. Special issue devoted to the U. S. Coast Guard, Lifesaving Service and Lighthouse Service
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12248i. [envelope] Office of Superintendent of Life-Saving Stations, Second District, East Orleans, Mass. c.1892.
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12435. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Service Crew, Big Sandy Life-Saving Station, Lake Ontario c.1913.
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11501. Stover, Douglas. Pea Island Life-Saving Station, Rodanthe, North Carolina, Coast Guard Station #177 : Historic Resource Study.
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29221. (tintype) U.S. Life Saving Service Surfman c.1870. 1/6th plate.
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12467. (photo) U.S. Life-Saving Service Horse-Drawn Parade Float c.1900.
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1234n. (document) U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Jerry’s Point Station c.1899.
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13236. Freeman, Rev. Thomas J.A. The Life Saving Service in the United States. The American Catholic Quarterly Review, 1893
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1234q. (lot 4 documents) U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Great Boars Head Life-Saving Station, Hampton, NH. c.1899.
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1234w. (document) U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Fletchers Neck Station. October 15, 1899.
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1234v. (document) U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Fletchers Neck Station. September 21, 1899.
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1234x. (document) U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Fletchers Neck Station. September 8, 1899.
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12300. (copy photo) Old Harbor Life-Saving Station, Chatham from c.1900 view by The Mayflower Shop.
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29222c. [full page plate] United States Life-Saving Service, 1899-1915.
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14160. Lane, Mark. The United States Life Saving Service. Treasure Trove Magazine. October 1891
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12431. (brochure) Sparrow, Mary Evelyn. Lectures on New Subjects given at Point Allerton Life-Saving Station, Hull, Mass. The Life-Saving Service of the United States. The Massachusetts Life-Saver. c.1904.
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1234-26. (document) U.S. Life-Saving Service, Office of Superintendent, First District, Portsmouth, NH. c.1899.
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12315. (framed portrait) Keeper Joseph F. Reed, U.S. Life-Saving Service, Island Beach Station, NJ., c.1870-1880.
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29221b. (tintype) U.S. Life Saving Service Surfman c.1880’s.
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14143. (carving set) William Wallace Cook (1851-1923), Keeper, Peaked Hill Bars Life- Saving Station, Provincetown, Mass. c.1909.
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23577b [article] Uniforms and Equipment – United States Life-Saving Service, 1899-1915.
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14292. Hunt, Edward Soper. Weymouth Ways and Weymouth People – REMINISCENCES. Boston. 1907. Reprint 2013.
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7238. Dobbins, David Porter. THE DOBBINS LIFE-BOAT ILLUSTRATED. Buffalo 1886
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5174. Lincoln , Joseph C., RUGGED WATER. New York . 1924
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25111b. [photograph] Life-Saving Service Surfman c.1900.
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21498f. (cabinet photo) North Scituate Life Saving Station and Crew by Otis Barker Photographer, Scituate c.1887.
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15188. [cabinet photograph] c.1890-1900. Original portrait photograph, of a Life-Saving Service Surfman.
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1592. (photo) Life-Saving Crew Drilling with Beach Apparatus c.1910.
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26107i. [cabinet photograph] Life-Saving Service Surfman, Narragansett Pier Life Saving Station, Narragansett, Rhode Island c.1906.
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16102a. (signed lithograph) Shore Patrol by Gordon Grant c.1938.
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25351c. Rice, Frederick Jr. THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. New England Magazine. May 1908
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12319. (newspaper) Monomoy Disaster – Twelve Lives Lost – Seven Brave Life Savers Perish. 1902
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1703. (matted photo print) U.S. Life-Saving Service Crew Posing.
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12430. (cabinet view) Landing of the Lifeboat, North Truro, Mass. c.1890.
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1234-5. U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Rye Beach Life-Saving Station c.1899-1900
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21498. (lot 2 cabinet photos) North Scituate Life Saving Station by C.H. Kelly c.1894
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3096. (cabinet photo) U.S. Life-Saving Service Surfman (San Francisco area) c.1900
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7354. (doc) LIFE-SAVING SERVICE ON THE GREAT LAKES . May 20, 1880
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1234-38. U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Great Boars Head Life-Saving Station, Hampton, NH. c.1900
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1234-40. U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Cape Elizabeth Life-Saving Station c.1899. S.N. Dyer, Keeper
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1234-54. U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Damiscove Life-Saving Station, near Boothbay Harbor, Maine c.1900
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1234-53. U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Hunniwells Beach Life-Saving Station, Maine. March 1900
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1234-15. U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Biddefford Pool [Fletchers Neck] Life-Saving Station, Maine c.1899
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1234-37. U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Cranberry Islands Life-Saving Station, Maine c.1899
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1234-10. U.S. Life-Saving Service, First District, Burnt Island Life-Saving Station, Maine c.1899
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1269b. (cabinet photo) Life-Saving Service Surfman Frank Tuttle, Long Island, New York c.1890-1900.
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28423. (telescope) “Merrimac Humane Society 1886” Brass, Two Draw Telescope / Spyglass for use, or given as a premium / life-saving award by The Merrimac Humane Society of Newburyport, Massachusetts.
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1174. [life ring] Merrimack Humane Society Canvas Life Ring c.1900-1940’s.
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23377c. [Life-Saving Service 3-dimensional gravure print] c.1902.
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3121. HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ANNUAL REPORT 1885.
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27134d. U. S. Life Saving Service Friction Primer from Cahoon Hollow Life Saving Station, Cape Cod c.1900.
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707. Shanks, Ralph and Lisa Woo. GUARDIANS OF THE GOLDEN GATE. Petaluma. 1990.
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2232. Trapani, Robert Jr., INDIAN RIVER LIFE-SAVING STATION… JOURNEY ALONG THE SANDS… THE U.S. LIFE-SAVING YEARS, 1876-1915. Virginia Beach. 2002.
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2790. Dalton , J. W., THE LIFE SAVERS OF CAPE COD . 1902. Reprint 1991 Parnassus.
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28169. Thurlow, Sandra Henderson and Deanna Wintercorn. GILBERT’S BAR HOUSE OF REFUGE – Home of History. Stuart. 2008
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28129. Galluzzo, John. Lifesavers of the South Shore – A History of Rescue and Loss. History Press. 2008.
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28240. Buker, Commander George E., THE METAL LIFE CAR- The Inventor, the Impostor, and the Business of Lifesaving. Univ. Alabama Press. 2008.
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10508. Owens, James E. U. S. Life Saving Coloring Book. Schiffer. 2010
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1171. na. RESCUE – True Stories of the U.S. Life Saving Service. Avery. 2011.
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11411. Lee, James J. III. Spermaceti Cove Life-Saving Station – Historic Structure Report. Harpers Ferry. 2008
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12297. Cuzzart, Melissa Leigh. From Surfman to Petty Officer: The History and Legacy of the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the U.S. Coast Guard at Cape Lookout, North Carolina. Proquest. 2009.
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BR-1125. [journal] WRECK & RESCUE. Journal of the United States Life Saving Service Heritage Association.
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20283. (button) U.S. Life-Saving Service, early style FD 20A & B c.1870’s.
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1258d. U.S. Life-Saving Service. Order Form for Uniform for Crumple Island Life-Saving Station, Jonesport, Maine c.1899.
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29313. Ryder, Richard G. Seashore Sentinel: The Old Harbor Lifesaving Station on Cape Cod. West Barnstable. 2009. 2nd.
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1538. (glass projection slide) U.S. Life-Saving Station, Cleveland Harbor c.1900.
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16100a. (Copy photo from original) U.S. Life-Saving Station, Cleveland, Ohio c.1891.
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16100b. (Copy photo from original) Lifeboat Roll Over Drill, Cleveland Life-Saving Station, Ohio c.1891.
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15117. (large copy photo) Dobbins type 28-foot pulling lifeboat, Station Ilwaco/Klipsan, Washington c.1904-1910.
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13416c. (photo) Klipsan Beach Life-Saving Station and Crew, Washington c.1915.
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1209. (mounted photo) U.S. Life Saving Station, Yaquina Bay, Newport, Oregon c.1895.
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1527. (photo) U. S. Life Saving Crew, Newport, Oregon Capsize Drill c.1911.
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14172. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Station Lookout / Lighthouse, Newport , Oregon c.1910.
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1408. (lot 2 photos) U.S. Life Saving Station Lookout / Lighthouse and Surf, Newport , Oregon c.1910.
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14271. (copy photo) U.S. Life-Saving Service Surfboat Crew, Tillamook Bay Station, Barview, Oregon c.1910 view.
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1448. (photo) U. S. Life Saving Crew, Bandon, Oregon Capsize Drill c.1911.
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15154. (photo) U.S. Life-Saving Service Surfboat Crew, Tillamook Bay Station, Barview Beach, Oregon c.1915.
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1527b. (photo) U. S. Life Saving Crew, Newport, Oregon Breeches Buoy Drill c.1911.
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12292b. (photo) U. S. Life Saving Crew, Newport, Oregon c.1912.
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25179. (paperweight) c.1900. “U. S. Life-Saving Station, South Haven, Michigan”.
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20218d. Vent, Myron H. SOU TH MANITOU ISLAND : FROM PIONEER SETTLEMENT TO PARK. Springfield , Virginia . 1973
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7399. Noble, Dennis and T. Michael O’Brien. SENTINELS OF THE ROCKS – From “ Graveyard Coast ” to National Lakeshore. Marquette. 1979.
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3097. (lot 6+ photos) U.S. Life-Saving Service Surfmen & Stations Michigan Great Lakes c.1904-1914.
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11180. (button) “House of Refuge” (Florida). U.S. Life Saving Service.
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3026. Charlet, James D. Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks: Dramatic Rescues and Fantastic Wrecks in the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Rowman & Littlefield. 2020.
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HB-142b. (framed photo) Morris Island Life-Saving Station, South Carolina c.1893.
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1160. na. He Flung the First Life Line – The Story of William A. Newell, of New Jersey, Founder of the United States Life Saving Service – A Career of Practical PhilanthroThe Christian Herald and Sign of Our Times. April 5, 1899.
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2584b. THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. January 25, 1873.
