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33163. (lot) U.S. Coast Guard Lightship / Cutter Disposition Documents c.1955.
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23371i. United States Lighthouse Establishment/Service Post Lantern c.1880’s.
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#6514. SALE 20% off United States Light-House Service – Establishment Buttons
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33157. (brass pressure gauge & photo lot) U.S. Lighthouse Tender Cedar c.1916.
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12199d. U. S. Lighthouse Service Chronograph – Stopwatch. “U.S.L.H.S.”
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33150. [chart] PROVINCETOWN HARBOR. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Edition of December 1910.
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33140. (photo) Keeper Bon South with Daughter, Sitting on Fog Whistle, Point Vincente Light Station, California c.1927.
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6507p. [blanket] U. S. LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE WOOL BLANKET. c.1900.
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33139. U.S. Light House Establishment Sextant by Hurlimann Paris.
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D-16. U. S. Light-House Service Medicine Chest c.1900-1938
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13408. Henry, Ellen J. The Lighthouse Service and the Great War. Ponce Inlet. 2013.
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33137. (photo) Light Vessel No. 11 Scotland Retired at Staten Island c.1925.
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33138. (lot 9 glass slides) United States Lighthouse Service Related Glass Projection Lantern Slides c.1910.
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2315. Renton, Alan. LOST SOUNDS. Scotland. 2001.
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6377. (document) Light-House Keeper North Hammock…. April 11, 1848.
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6364a. Johnson, Arnold Burges, Chief Clerk, United States Light-House Board. THE MODERN LIGHT-HOUSE SERVICE. GPO. 1890. 137pp.
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6378. (document) Appointment Light House Keeper, St. Lawrence February 1848.
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33030. (copy photos) U.S. Light-House Establishment Chelsea LH Depot, etc
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6762-52. United States Light House Establishment / Service Lighthouse Lamp Feeder / Oil Filling Can c.1880-1910.
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33060. Korpela, Janet Winn. Ira Winn Lighthouse Pioneer. Sampo. 2000.
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8419. Emerson, Willie M., FIRST LIGHT – Reminiscences of Storm Child and Growing up on a Lighthouse. East Boothbay, Maine. 1986.
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33038. DeWire, Elinor. Guardians of the Lights – The Men and Women of the U.S. Lighthouse Service. Pineapple Press, 1995
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C96309. (copy photo lot) Changing Lens in Cape Cod [Highland] Light House in 1901
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C21180. [retouched digital copy print]. U. S. Lightship Second LH District. c.1880-90
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2723b. Plans for Reproduction U.S. Light House Establishment Library Box.
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23240. U.S. LIGHT HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. (set 11 original hand drawn architectural drawings) Screw Pile Light House for the 4th., 5th., and 6th. Order Lenses. U.S. Light House Board. 1880 – 1906.
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873. [plan] DESIGN FOR FLINNS [Flynn’s] KNOLL LIGHT, NEW YORK. October 1838.
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7197a4. [newspaper] Light-House Keepers. The Portland Daily Advertiser. November 30, 1852.
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21372c. Lighthouse Service Button Cufflinks.
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2817. (hat) Early Kepi, U. S. Lighthouse Service insignia.
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33007. (prints) Historic Tenders of the United States Lighthouse Service and the U. S. Coast Guard. c.1970’s.
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2426. (plan) St. George Reef Light Station. California. Plan of Rock and Relative Position of the Men’s Quarters, the Schooner La Ninfa and Her Moorings c.1883.
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873. [plan] DESIGN FOR FLINNS [Flynn’s] KNOLL LIGHT, NEW YORK. October 1838.
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6594d. THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE. Harper’s Weekly. December 22, 1900.
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20383b. NATURE’S SUBMARINES – How We Guard Our Commerce Against Them. Scientific American Supplement. November 2, 1918.
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21114. HR No 48. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TRANSMITTING STATEMENTS OF PAYMENTS MADE AT THE TREASURY DURING THE YEAR 1821 FOR THE DISCHARGE OF MISCELLANEOUS CLAIMS…OF CONTRACTS MADE FOR OIL, LIGHT-HOUSES, BUOYS, &c., … OF CONTRACTS MADE BY COLLECTORS FOR THE REVENUE SERVICE FOR THE YEAR 1820…. February 1, 1822.
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20221b. Caddell, Alfred M. THE LIGHTHOUSE THAT HAS NO KEEPER. St. Nicholas [Magazine]. January 1924
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25259. (copy photograph / print) U. S. Light-House Tender Mayflower.
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27324. (plot plan) Superintendent of Lighthouses, Third Lighthouse District. SHINNECOCK BAY LIGHT STATION. c.1929.
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6281. vanRoden, Mary D. Nauset Light, A Personal History – the1875 Lightkeeper’s House and the1892 Oil House. Lyme, NH. 1995.
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639-6224. (documents) U.S. Lighthouse Establishment Office Light House Inspector, 4th Dist., Philadelphia. 1889
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6201. (document) Transmitting Report of Operations 4th District for August 1889.
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6211. (letter of receipt) Receipt of Muster Roll of Relief LV. No. 24 for the Quarter Ending Sept. 30, 1889.
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24323g. (document) Keeper C. L. Knight, Squirrel Point Light Station, Maine c.1923.
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22584b. [document] U. S. Light-House Establishment. Letter dated October 7, 1833 from John Chandler Collector & Superintendent Of Light Houses, District of Portland, Maine to Keeper Hezekiah Prince of Thomaston Maine.
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23555g. (document) Keeper Joseph Lawler, Pemaquid Point Lighthouse, Maine c.1862.
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2958. Re Petition to Remove Keeper Milwaukee Light-House, Wisconsin. April 14, 1846.
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22584a. [document] U. S. Light-House Establishment. Letter dated April 11, 1835 from John Chandler Collector & Superintendent Of Light Houses, District of Portland, Maine to Hezekiah Prince of Thomaston Maine re salary.
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27208. (document) Light House Lighting, Morgan Point Light House, Conn. c.1836.
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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
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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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10109. (document) Treasury Department. Ensigns and Bunting furnished to the Light House Establishment by the Revenue Marine Division. June 27, 1878.
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6400. (document) Light-Boat at Smith’s Point, Virginia. January 7, 1843.
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27175a-j. U. S. Light-House Board. Officers on Duty Under the Light-House Establishment. Bureau Circulars. c.1903-1907
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632. (document) From George W. Coffin, Naval Secretary to Comdr. J.J. Reed, Inspector 4th. L. H. District. 1889.
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649. (document) From James Gregory, Engineer Secretary to Comdr. J.J. Reed, Inspector 4th. L. H. District. c.1889
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673. From Commander George Coffin to Comdr. J. J. Reed, Inspector 4th Light-House District. 1889
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32175. Gibbs, James A. Jr., Shipwwrecks Off Juan De Fuca. Portland., 1968.
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9261b. na. UNITED STATES COMMISSION OF FISH AND FISHERIES – REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR 1883 [Lighthouse Steamer Albatross]. Washington: GPO. 1885,
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L-69. Herring, Ethel. CAP’N CHARLIE AND LIGHTS OF THE LOWER CAPE FEAR. 1981. 3rd.
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20403. Platske, Fran Carpenter. WE, THE KEEPERS’ KIDS & THE OLD LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE – Lighthouse Ballads. Kalamazoo. 1994
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1650-2. Light-House Establishment. Specifications for First-Order Iron Light-Houses to be Erected on Trinity Shoal and Timablier, Gulf of Mexico. Washingon: GPO. 1871
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26352. Tinkham, Capt. R. R. Tinkham. TECHNICAL PHASES OF LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE. The Military Engineer Magazine. May-June. 1925.
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24165. AN ACT TO CEDE TO THE UNITED STATES THE JURISDICTION OF SITES FOR LIGHT HOUSES ON RACE POINT, NASHAUN ISLAND AND POINT GAMMON. Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts…. Boston. 1816.
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PC-51. Gibbs, James A. Jr., TILLAMOOK LIGHT. Portland, OR. 1953
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507h. Otis, James. THE LIGHT KEEPERS. A Story of the United States Light-House Service. New York. 1923.
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6240g. Owen, Francis C., SENTINELS OF THE SEA. NY. 1926
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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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32167. McDowell, Stuart. The Last Lighthouse Keeper. McDowell. 2023
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2175. Rideing, William H., SAFETY ON THE ATLANTIC. Scribner’s Magazine. New York. June 1891.
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25330. (document) U. S. Lighthouse Service, Superintendent of Lighthouses, 3rd District, Thompkinsville Lighthouse Depot, New York. May 11, 1921.
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PC-164. (bid booklet) Specifications for The Face Wall of New Stone Pier of Protection for Waugoshance Light-House, Straits of Mackinac, Michigan. Washington, GPO. 1868
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6332-73, 85. Light-House Board. LIST OF LIGHTS AND FOG SIGNALS ON THE ATLANTIC AND GULF COASTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 1896, 1911
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21367. Small, Connie. THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER’S WIFE. Orono, Maine. 1986 1st.
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3030. Clifford, Mary L. and J. Candace Clifford. When the Southern Lights Went Dark – The Lighthouse Establishment During the Civil War. Globe Pequot. 2020.
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32117. (map) U.S. Lighthouse Establishment on the Great Lakes. c.1900 view. 10 ½” x 16”
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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”.
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10345. U. S. Light-House Service District Charts – Small Size
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2096. Light-House Board, INSTRUCTIONS TO LIGHT-KEEPERS AND MASTERS OF LIGHT-HOUSE VESSELS. GPO. 1902. GLLKA
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32062. (framed painting) U.S. Light-House Establishment, 2nd Assistant Light Keeper c.1900.
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22387d. [original lithograph, framed] IRON LIGHT HOUSE ON MINOTS LEDGE MASSACHUSETTS BAY FROM A DRAWING FOR WHICH A PREMIUM WAS AWARDED…. LIGHTED FIRST TIME JAN’Y 1ST 1850. BUILT UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CAPT. W. H. SWIFT, LATE OF UNITED STATES ENGINEERS. Swett & Powers, Litghographers, Boston . 1850.
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25306d. U. S. Lighthouse Service. INSTRUCTIONS TO EMPLOYEES OF THE UNITED STATES LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE 1927.
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32027. (cabinet photograph) U.S. Lighthouse Establishment Principal Keeper, Wisconsin c.1890.
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1934a,b,c. (copy photo) U.S. Lighthouse Service Truck 2nd District c.1919.
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32002. na. Lighthouse Service Has Vivid and Colorful History.
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1601. Dolin, Eric Jay. Brilliant Beacons – A History of the American Lighthouse. 2016. 1st. 448p. Stiff wraps. DJ.
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10281. [reproduction] U. S. Lighthouse Service Station Flag.
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6697. Thompson, Frederic L., THE LIGHTSHIPS OF CAPE COD. 1996.
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6721. Jennings, Harold B. A LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY. Orleans. 1989.
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9496. Peterson, Douglas, (U.S.C.G. Retired) U. S. LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE TENDERS. Eastwind. 2000.
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SALE! Booklets by Tom Tag – Fresnel Lenses & Lighting… ~ Early American Lighthouse Illumination ~
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6385. Wig-Wam Point Light-House , Gloucester, Mass. November 11, 1841.
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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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SR-452. Lighthouse Service. LIST OF BEACONS, BUOYS, STAKES, SPINDLES AND ALL OTHER DAY MARKS IN THE SECOND LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT 1886.
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3142c. Lighthouse Service. LIST OF BEACONS, BUOYS, STAKES, SPINDLES AND ALL OTHER DAY MARKS IN THE SECOND LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. 1879.
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27161. Lighthouse Service. LOCAL LIGHT LIST NEW ENGLAND COAST. Maine to Massachusetts. First and Second Lighthouse District. 1928 – 1936.
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6332nn. Lighthouse Service. LOCAL [LIGHT AND] BUOY LIST [INCLUDING LIGHTS, FOG SIGNALS, BUOYS, AND DAYMARKS] MASSACHUSETTS. Wash. 1918.
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6332eee. Lighthouse Service. LIST OF BUOYS] [INCLUDING LIGHTS, FOG SIGNALS, BUOYS, AND DAYMARKS] MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE 1911
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6332jj. Lighthouse Service. LOCAL [LIGHT AND] BUOY LIST [INCLUDING LIGHTS, FOG SIGNALS, BUOYS, AND DAYMARKS] MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1916
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9257d. THE UNITED STATES LIGHT HOUSE SERVICE – Its History, Growth and Methods. Part II. Scientific American Supplement. December 2, 1916.
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7260. Wass, Philmore B. LIGHTHOUSE IN MY LIFE – The Story of a Maine Lightkeeper’s Family. 1987
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2538. (document) from keeper Boon Island Light House, Maine c.1849
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4678. 21509. na. U. S. LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE. Fortune Magazine January 1937
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6593. Kobbe, Gustav. HEROISM IN THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE
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6332-7. Lighthouse Service. LIST OF LIGHTS, BUOYS AND DAYMARKS IN THE SECOND LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. 1907
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6332-69. Lighthouse Service. LIST OF BUOYS [LIGHTS and DAYMARKS] IN THE SECOND LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. 1911
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6332fff. Lighthouse Service. LIST OF BUOYS] [INCLUDING LIGHTS, FOG SIGNALS, BUOYS, AND DAYMARKS] MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE 1914
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6332ddd. Lighthouse Service. LIST OF LIGHTS, BUOYS AND DAYMARKS IN THE FIRST LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. 1909
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6332-9. Lighthouse Service. LIST OF LIGHTS, BUOYS AND DAYMARKS IN THE FIRST LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. 1907. Wash.
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21425. [reproduction] U. S. Lighthouse Service District Inspector’s Flag
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9434. Bachand, Robert G., NORTHEAST LIGHTS, LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS – RHODE ISLAND TO CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY. Norwalk , Ct. 1989.
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23280a,b. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MARINE LIGHTING – PARTS I, II, III
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2745, 2718. Crofton, M. THE UNITED STATES LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE. Once A Week [Newspaper]. April 12 & 19, 1892 Part I & Part II
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9240. Wilson, Rufus Rockwell. SEA ROVERS. New York . 1906
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U. S. Lighthouse Establishment Original Letters of Receipt
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2362. [document] Very early Colonial Lighthouse letter dated Treasury Department, Revenue Office, [Washington DC] May 1794.
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D-09. Official US Lighthouse Service Forms and Documents
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28398e. [proposal] Engineer Office, U.S. Army [ U. S. Light-House Service]. ADVERTISEMENT, SPECIFICATIONS AND PROPOSAL FOR MATERIAL FOR RANGE TOWERS AT FORT MONROE, VA. 1902
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28420. (documents) U.S. Lighthouse Service, 11th District. Radiophone Tests and Equipment. 1929
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4534. U. S. Coast Guard. CHRONOLOGY OF AIDS TO NAVIGATION AND THE OLD LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE 1716 – 1939.
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20285. [copy] Putnam, George. DISTRICT CIRCULAR LETTERS. 1914-1932
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6265. Williams, Colonel Dion. UNIFORMS AND INSIGNIA OF THE U. S. COAST GUARD , U. S. LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE , U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 1918.
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27281. [document copy] U. S. Department of Commerce, Lighthouse Service, Keeper’s Annual Property Return, Requisition, and Receipt Form No. 30. Race Point Light Station,
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24386. (3 copy plan / drawing sheets) U. S. Light House Establishment. LIGHT KEEPER’S IMPLEMENTS. c.1870.
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21377. [document copy] U. S. Department of Commerce, Lighthouse Service, Keeper’s Annual Property Return, Requisition, and Receipt Form No. 30.
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28398b. [bid booklet] U. S. Light-House Establishment. SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE METAL FRAMEWORK FOR MAKING BORINGS ON DIAMOND SHOALS, CAPE HATTERAS, NORTH CAROLINA. 1893.
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27158a.U. S. Lighthouse Service. REGULATIONS FOR LIGHTING BRIDGES OVER NAVIGABLE WATERS. GPO. 1914 – 1937
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27167. Light House Establishment. SPECIFICATIONS AND CONTRACT FOR THE SINGLE-SCREW STEEL STEAM LIGHT-HOUSE TENDER CYPRESS. 1906
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27162. Light House Establishment. SPECIFICATIONS AND CONTRACT FOR THE SINGLE-SCREW STEEL STEAM LIGHT-HOUSE TENDER TULIP. 1906.
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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.
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2992. (documents) Transferring, promoting and appointing Mr. Charles F. Allen as Keeper of the Light stations at Humboldt Light Station, Point Hueneme Light Station, Point Conception Light Station, California, c.1890’s.
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SR-529-3. (pay voucher) U.S. Light-House Establishment. Appropriation for Salaries of Keeper, Farallone Island Light Station c.1870
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SR-529-2. (pay voucher) U.S. Light-House Establishment. Appropriation for Salaries of Keeper, Farallone Island Light Station c.1870
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10470. (DVD) The Keepers of Cana Island Light & Keepers of the Door. 2006
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313g. [reprint] “THE LIGHTHOUSES OF THE UNITED STATES”, by Charles Nordhoff, March 1874. “LIFE IN A LIGHTHOUSE, LIFE ON THE SOUTH SHOAL LIGHTSHIP, and HEROISM IN THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE” by Gustav Kobbe. 1981 reprint.
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BR-91. Kozma, LuAnne Gaykowski. LIVING AT A LIGHTHOUSE – Oral Histories from the Great Lakes. GLLKA 1987
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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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20337. Gaykowski Kozma, LuAnne. LIVING AT A LIGHTHOUSE – Oral Histories from the Great Lakes. GLLKA. 1987.
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1650-8. Light-House Establishment. Specifications for a Fourth-Order Light-House and Keeper’s Dwelling at Entrance to The Straits of Karquines, California. August 1872.
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4532. Putnam, George R., BEACONS OF THE SEA: LIGHTING THE COASTS OF THE UNITED STATES. National Geographic. 1913
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5261a,f,g. Putnam, George R., AN IMPORTANT NEW GUIDE FOR SHIPPING. 1918
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664. (document) U.S. Light House Establishment. Office Light House Inspector, 4th Dist., Philadelphia . c.1889.
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11377. Light-House Board. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1861.
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790b. Bache, Major Hartman. EARLY WEST COAST LIGHTHOUSES. San Francisco. 1964
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4427b. Smith, Fitz-Henry Jr., THE STORY OF BOSTON LIGHT.
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5515b. OUR LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. na. June 1856.
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773. Kurtz, John D. & Brown, Micah R., [Engineer Dept., U. S. Army]. REPORT ON THE EFFECTS OF THE SEA-WATER AND EXPOSURE UPON THE IRON-PILE SHAFTS OF THE BRANDYWINE-SHOAL LIGHT-HOUSE. GPO. 1874
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22379. [newspaper] Proposals for Light-House on Robbin’s Reef in the Harbor of New York, and second Proposal for Building a Vessel to be used as a Floating Light [lightship] off Sandy Hook.
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PC-118. Senate 166. “REPORT of THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY communicating THE RESULT OF AN EXPERIMENT TO ASCERTAIN THE EXPEDIENCY OF USING GAS, INSTEAD OF OIL, IN THE LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.”
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22553. [bid booklet] U. S. Light-House Establishment. [specifications for] LIGHT HOUSE, ETC. MAHON RIVER LIGHT STATION, DELAWARE. 1900.
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9246. na. THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER’S DAUGHTER – A True Story. Boston. 1862.
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7275. [An Act for Granting to the United States of America, the Several Public Light-Houses, within this Commonwealth]
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2033b,c. Johnson, Arnold Burges, [Chief Clerk, United States Light-House Board]. THE LIGHT-HOUSE SERVICE.
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PC-118. Senate 166. “REPORT of THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY communicating THE RESULT OF AN EXPERIMENT TO ASCERTAIN THE EXPEDIENCY OF USING GAS, INSTEAD OF OIL, IN THE LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.”
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22342. [Light-House Establishment blueprint]
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22180. [blueprint copy] Full size copy from original U. S. Light-House Establishment blueprint for LANTERN FOR APPARATUS OF THE 4TH, 5TH, & 6TH ORDERS. c.1870’s.
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24252. (technical & maintenance pamphlet) Safety Car Heating and Lighting Company. THE PINTSCH GAS LIGHTED BUOYS.
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7197rr. [newspaper] [practice of appointing Light House Keepers].
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499 (8). Senate Doc. No. 474. May 18, 1840. 13pp. Report examining communications by Mr Henry Lapaute (French constructor of lenticular lanterns) to Mr. Davis of the Senate, subsequent to the arrival in the United States of two lenticular lights from France, to be tried at Sandy Hook and at Isle of Shoals.
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C-562. REPORT OF THE OFFICERS CONSTITUTING THE LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD…TO INQUIRE INTO THE CONDITIONS OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 3, 1851 . Senate Ex. Doc. No. 28. Wash. 1852. 760 pages.
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4689. Karpin, David G. Distinguishing Lighthouses. Historical Reproductions. Karpin. 1994
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28177. (newspaper) Blunt, Messrs E & G.W., IMPROVEMENT OF THE LIGHTHOUSES” – “REJOINDER OF E & G. W. BLUNT TO THE REPYL OF PLEASONTON TO THEIR COMMUNICATION TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY ON THE SUBJECT OF LIGHTHOUSES.
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5515. OUR LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.
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10224. na. Sea Lights or Light Houses.
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4681. Munroe, Kirk. FROM LIGHT TO LIGHT – The Cruise of the Armeria, (lighthouse) Supply Ship.
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6598. Albert, Alphaeus H., RECORD OF AMERICAN UNIFORM AND HISTORICAL BUTTONS Bicentennial Edition.
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20285. [copy] Putnam, George. DISTRICT CIRCULAR LETTERS. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Lighthouses. 1914-1932
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20166. (print profile views) Historic Vessels of the United States Revenue Marine and Coast Guard. 1976
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J-53. [water color] Original w/c painting Great Round Shoal Light Vessel No. 86 [1913]
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28312. (document) [Nantucket Light House – Great Point] Statement of Contracts Made Relative to Oil, Light Houses, Stakeages, &c…. Revenue Office. January 22nd, 1817.
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6394. (letterpress copy) Appointment of Light Keeper, Gay Head Light-House, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. December 8, 1849.
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11491. (document) Light House Establishment Repairs, Gay Head Light Station, Martha’s Vineyard c.1860.
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6332-54. Lighthouse Service. Lighthouse Service. LIST OF BEACONS, BUOYS AND DAYMARKS IN THE SECOND LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. 1901.
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2074. Clifford, J. Candace and Mary Louise Clifford. NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIGHTS – Historic Images of American Lighthouses. Alexandria. 2000
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715. (rare document) Removal of Keeper. Marblehead Light-House , Mass. April 29, 1841.
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1004. (document) Light House Establishment Repair Voucher, Narraguagus [or Pond Island] light station, Maine c.1860.
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United States Lighthouse Service Dinnerware
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6333y. Putnam, George R. SENTINEL OF THE COASTS – THE LOG OF A LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEER. NY. 1937.
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US Lighthouse Service lamp feeders available.
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29395a,b. (documents) Lighthouse Keeper Pay Vouchers, Keeper Joshua F. Strout, Asst. Keeper Mary E. Strout, Portland Head Lighthouse, Maine 1869.
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1047. (document) Treasury Department, Fifth Auditor’s Office. Regarding Keeper Appointment – Great Captain Island Lighthouse. Stephen Pleasonton. November 2, 1839.
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29338. (document) United States Lighthouse Service. Absence of Keeper from Station. November 1, 1911.
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1179. na. “Report of the Franklin Institute, on the Dioptric System of Augustin Fresnel for the Illumination of Lighthouses”.
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2919. (halftone print) The United States Government Lighthouse and Signals Exhibit [at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago. 1894].
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10377. (document) U.S. Lighthouse Service, Office of Superintendent, 1st District, Portland, Maine. October 11, 1922.
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350. [2 pieces] Henry, Joseph. RESEARCHES IN SOUND: With Special Reference to Fog-Signaling. [Conducted in the Service of THE UNITED STATES LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD, by Joseph Henry During the Years 1865 to 1877]. GPO 1878
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6103. Sterling , Robert Thayer. LIGHTHOUSES OF THE MAINE COAST AND THE MEN WHO KEEP THEM. Brattleboro. 1935, 1938
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1170. (document) U.S. Light House Establishment, Office of the Inspector, Second District, Boston, Mass. April 26, 1898.
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2217. Department of Commerce. Lighthouse Service. INSTRUCTIONS TO LIGHT KEEPERS. Wash. GPO. 1911.
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PA-60. (document) Form 207. U.S. Lighthouse Service. Application for Medical Examination and Treatment of Sick or Disabled Employees in the Lighthouse Service, at Places Where There is a Relief Station of the U.S. Public Health Service. c.1916.
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11262a-h. (lot 8 photos) Chicago Harbor Light Station c.1970’s.
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11336. Bennett, E. C., Skilled Men for Lighthouse Keepers.
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6762-22. United States Lighthouse Service Lighthouse Lamp Feeder / Oil Filling Can c.1900
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1210. Manuscript. (Boon Island Light House). LETTER PAYING KEEPER OF BOON ISLAND LIGHT $100 FOR BUILDING AND EQUIPPING A BOAT FOR THE LIGHT HOUSE. 1817. Sixteen line letter signed by Winslow Lewis, noted lighthouse builder, and inventor of a new system of lighting. 1817
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12205. (documents) Lighthouse Keeper Pay Vouchers, Boon Island Light Station, Maine c.1876.
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12415. (document) U.S. Light House Establishment. Supplies for Maine Lighthouses. 1st District. c.1870.
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12499. (document) Light House Establishment Repairs, Boon Island Light Station, Maine c.1860.
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12345. (document) Lighthouse Keeper Pay Voucher Form No. 5, Keeper Hiram J. Grant, Fort Point Lighthouse, Maine 1869.
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2511. Reproduction U. S. Lighthouse Service Efficiency Pins
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1698. (document)U.S. Light-House Establishment, Keeper Pay Voucher Form No. 5, Keeper Margaret Anderson, Round Island Lighthouse, Mississippi c.1877
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HB-. Herbert Bamber Collection of the United States Lighthouse Establishment c.1892
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24194. Office of Superintendent of Lighthouses, Sixth & Seventh District, Original Architectural Drawings. 1909-1939.
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10357. (document) Light House Establishment Repair Voucher, Sandy Neck Light Station, Barnstable, Cape Cod, Massachusetts c.1860.
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U.S. Life-Saving Service, Light-House Establishment & Lighthouse Service buttons
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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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10153. (Pay and Receipt Roll Form) Nobsque [Nobska] Point Light Station, Woods Hole, Cape Cod c.1860.
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1249. Highland Lighthouse and Keeper’s Dwelling, Historic Structure Report, North Truro, Massachusetts. Lowell. 1994.
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10153b. (Receipt For Supplies Form) Nobsque [Nobska] Point Light Station, Woods Hole, Cape Cod c.1860.
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707. Shanks, Ralph and Lisa Woo. GUARDIANS OF THE GOLDEN GATE. Petaluma. 1990.
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13183. D’Entremont, Jeremy. Everyday Heroes: The True Story of a Lighthouse Family. Coastlore Media. 2013
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26324c,e,f,g,h. Secretary of the Treasury, U. S. Revenue Cutter Service. RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE MOVEMENTS AND ANCHORAGE OF VESSELS IN SAINT MARYS RIVER [Great Lakes]. Washington. 1901
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28398a. [bid booklet] U. S. Light-House Establishment. SPECIFICATIONS OF WOODEN PONTOONS FOR FRAMEWORK TO BE ERECTED ON DIAMOND SHOALS, CAPE HATTERAS, NORTH CAROLINA. 1893.
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26238, 27160. Lighthouse Service. SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE TWIN-SCREW STEEL, DIESEL-ELECTRIC-PROPELLED LIGHTHOUSE TENDER “JUNIPER”. 1939
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27173a-k. United States Light-House Board. BULLETIN. RECENT CHANGES IN AIDS TO NAVIGATION – Coasts of the United States. 1903-1904
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27272a,b,c,d. U. S. Lighthouse Service. AIDS TO NAVIGATION ON THE COASTS AND WATERWAYS OF THE UNITED STATES – Statistics. 1935-1937
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C23259. (architectural drawing copy) Lantern For Apparatus of the 4th, 5th, and 6th Orders.
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27285a,b,c,d,e,f. (Light-House Keeper’s Receipt) Shinnecock Bay Light Station, Long Island, New York. c.1910.
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6332-68. Lighthouse Service. LIST OF BUOYS [LIGHTS and DAYMARKS] IN THE FIRST LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. 1911.
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6332-71. Lighthouse Service. LIST OF LIGHTS, BUOYS AND DAYMARKS IN THE FIRST LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT Embracing the Seacoast, Bays, Harbors, and Rivers from the Northeastern Boundary of the United States to Hampton Harbor, New Hampshire. 1909.
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SR-451. Lighthouse Service. LIST OF BEACONS, BUOYS, STAKES AND OTHER DAYMARKS IN THE FIRST LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT. 1886.
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Lighthouse Service / Establishment Button Sets
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10424. (post card) U.S. Lighthouse Establishment, 13th L.H. District, Portland, Oregon c.1886 – 1908..
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29115. (document) Letter of Introduction for Charles F. Allen c.1888.
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1523. (document) U.S. Lighthouse Keeper Pay Voucher Form No. 5, Keeper Archibald P. Marble, Humboldt Bay Lighthouse, California c.1870.
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1284. (document) Half Moon Shoal Lighthouse, Galveston, Texas c.1877.
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17184. (account pages) U.S. Light House Establishment. Port Eads, La. Account of Supplies delivered to Pansy Light Houses and Stake Lights During the Month Ending November 30, 1891.
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1615-2. Light-House Establishment. Specifications for First-Order Iron Light-Houses to be Erected on Trinity Shoal and Timablier, Gulf of Mexico.
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2770. A Circular Steel Light Tower at Sturgeon Bay Canal. Engineering News and American Railway Journal. November 9, 1899.
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20218d. Vent, Myron H. SOU TH MANITOU ISLAND : FROM PIONEER SETTLEMENT TO PARK. Springfield , Virginia . 1973
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26354c. Williams, Elizabeth Whitney. A CHILD OF THE SEA; and LIFE AMONG THE MORMONS. Beaver Island Hist. Soc. Reprint of 1905 edition c.1970’s.
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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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28320b. (news photo) U.S. Lighthouse Service, Airways Division, Airport Beacon, Naval Air Station, Hampton Roads, Virginia c.1920’s.
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13239. (signed document) Light-House Board. Appointment of Keeper Upper Cedar Point Light House, Virginia c.1867.
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1650-7. Light-House Establishment. Specifications for The Foundation and Iron-Work of the Hilton Head Range Light-Houses, South Carolina. [Washington, DC]: GPO, 1877.
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13456. (photo) Captain Ole Anderson, Principal Keeper (1906—1928), Highlands of Navesink Twin Lights, New Jersey c.1929
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14153. (photo) Lighthouse Service Radio Range Station, Newark, NJ. c.1938
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1285a. na. Lighthouses and Buoys of New York Harbor – Safeguards for the Mariner. Scientific American Supplement. March 1, 1913.
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1324. (lot 3 documents) Foundation for New Iron Beacon Tower, Dunkirk Light, Point Gratiot, New York c.1880.
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14259. (document) Edward Giddins, Former Light-Keeper Fort Independence, to General Henry Dearborn c.1826.
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16218. (document) U.S. Light-House Establishment, Keeper Pay Voucher Form No. 6, Assistant Keeper Hugh Walsh, Fire Island Lighthouse, New York c.1872.
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13376. (photo) World’s Largest Buoy Gets Ready for Winter, Point Judith, Rhode Island c.1924.
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1897. (lot documents 70+ pieces) Keeper John A. Brown, Sakonnet Light Station in Rhode Island and Tarrytown Light in New York c.1913 – 1930’s.
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14199a,b. (document) U.S. Light-House Establishment Repair Voucher, Painting Piles & Braces Narrows (Bug) Light House, Boston Harbor c.1860.
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20178. U. S. Light-House Service District Charts – Large Size
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13140r. (lot 6 photos) Keeper Joseph W. Jellison, Tenants Harbor Light Station, Maine c.1910.
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1659. (signed document) Keeper Joseph P. Jenkins, Boon Island Lighthouse, Maine c.1839.
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12150. (blueprint) Sketch Showing Location of Proposed Protecting Pier at Deer Island Light Station, Boston, Mass. October 4, 1902. 15″ x 17″.
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12310. (document) Light House Establishment Repair Voucher, Boston Harbor Narrows (Bug) Light Station, Mass c.1860.
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14201. (document) U.S. Light-House Establishment Repair Voucher, Repairs at Gay Head Light Station, Martha’s Vineyard c.1860.
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14198. (document) U.S. Light-House Establishment. Moving Beacons at Holmes Hole, Martha’s Vineyard c.1860.
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1688. (document) U.S. Light-House Establishment Repair Voucher, Repairs at Gay Head Light Station, Martha’s Vineyard c.1860.
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21426. [reproduction] U. S. Lighthouse Service District Superintendent’s Flag.
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20418. [reproduction] U. S. Lighthouse Service Station Flag.
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28317. (copy photos) U.S. Lighthouse Service Tenders.
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1155b,c,d. (3 pay vouchers) U.S. Lighthouse Tender Lily c.1877.
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12402b. (photo) U.S. Lighthouse Service Tender Walnut Under Construction c.1939.
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12402a. (photo) Launching of U.S. Lighthouse Service Tender Walnut c.1939.
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13275. (glass plate negative) U. S. Lighthouse Tender Verbena c.1891.
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14107. (glass negative) U.S. Lighthouse Service, Lighthouse Tender Joseph Henry with U.S. Mail Steamship Kate Adams c.1890’s.
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14325. Mason, Paul J. Great Lakes Lighthouse Tenders: A History of the Boats and Crews That Served in the U.S. Lighthouse Service on the Great Lakes. M&B. 2014.
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14107b. (glass projection slide) U.S. Lighthouse Service, Lighthouse Tender Joseph Henry with U.S. Mail Steamship Kate Adams c.1890’s.
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SR-528. (document) Form No. 28. Light House Establishment Repair Voucher, Towing Light-House Tender “Lily” c.1877
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17189. (document) U.S. Light House Establishment. Specifications for Repairs to Light House Tender Zizania c.1902.
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1030. (Pay Roll Forms No. 7) U.S. Lightship No. 13 Bartlett’s Reef c.1876.
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10104. (copy photo) U.S. Lighthouse Service, Tompkinsville Depot, Staten Island c.1900.
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9243i. THE UNITED STATES LIGHT HOUSE SERVICE – Its History, Growth and Methods. Part I. Scientific American Supplement. November 25, 1916.
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10504. United States Lighthouse Exhibit, World Columbian Exposition c.1894.
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21293g. MODERN LIGHTHOUSES, LIGHTSHIPS, BUOYS, ETC. Scientific American. September 10, 1892
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4718. CHRISTMAS EVE IN A LIGHT-HOUSE. Harper’s Weekly. December 30, 1876
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26154b. THE NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT AT HELL GATE LIGHTHOUSE. Scientific American. March 22, 1884.
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U. S. Lighthouse Establishment Original Reply Letters – LH Board Form 126
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U. S. Lighthouse Establishment Office Light House Inspector, 4th Dist., Philadelphia. Official Correspondence – c.1889
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24130. [document] United States General Light-House Depot. 1888.
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24323a. (Lot: document & photo) Keeper C. L. Knight, Goose Rocks Light Station, Maine c.1930.
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25320a,b,c. (lot three disciplinary letters) Keeper Conrad Hawk, Pecks Ledge Light Station c.1913.
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25322b. (Circular No. 83) REDUCTION OF SALARIES OF LIGHT-KEEPERS. Light-House Board. Circular No. 83 of 1889
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2942. (document) U. S. Department of Commerce, Lighthouse Service,
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1063 (envelope from) Arnold Burges Johnson, Chief Clerk, U.S. Light House Board, Washington, DC. c.1895.
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27299. THE HISTORY OF THE LIGHT HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. April 2, 1881.
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#715. Marblehead Light-House re. Replacement of Keeper., Mass. April 29, 1841.
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11469. (document) U.S. Lighthouse Service, Twelfth Lighthouse District c.1913.
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6762-21. United States Lighthouse Service Lighthouse Lamp Feeder / Oil Filling Can c.1900.
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6762-15. United States Light House Establishment Lighthouse Lamp Feeder / Oil Filling Can c.1880-1900.
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6594d. THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE. Harper’s Weekly. December 22, 1900
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661. (document) U.S. Light House Establishment. Office Light House Inspector, 4th Dist., Philadelphia . c.1889.
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6514. United States Light-House Establishment – Service Buttons
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BR-113. na. THE WORK OF THE LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE. The Rudder Magazine. July 1932.
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28284. U.S. Life Saving Service Fire Extinguisher – Harden Star Fire. Grenade c 1884
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1253. (pay voucher) U.S. Light-House Establishment. Appropriation for Salaries of Keepers of Light-vessels. c.1860’s.
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U.S. Life-Saving Service, Light-House Establishment & Lighthouse Service buttons
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458. H. R. Doc. No. 11. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES – A STATEMENT OF THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1848.
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12120. (keeper appointment letter) Henry Hill, Whitehall Narrows Stake Light No. 14. Lake Champlain, NY. c.1887.
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27436. (document) U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Lighthouses. Circular Letter No. 147. Political Activity.
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12251. (framed document) U.S. Lighthouse Service. Service of Keeper Annetta E. Bailey c.1913.
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12317. (newspaper page) Daymarks Sub for Lamp-Posts of the Sea From Dawn to Dusk – More than Eight Thousand Buoys Aid the Boatmen Through the day and the Fog While the Lighthouses are Dimmed
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350. [2 pieces] Henry, Joseph. RESEARCHES IN SOUND: With Special Reference to Fog-Signaling. [Conducted in the Service of THE UNITED STATES LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD, by Joseph Henry During the Years 1865 to 1877].
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1304. (document) U. S. Light-House Establishment, Office of the Light-House Inspector, Fourteenth District, Cincinnati, Ohio. Jan. 19, 1895
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R-08. Original hand drawn architectural drawings Wood End, Long Point Type Light Towers.
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13337. (autobiography) George R. Putnam, Commissioner of Lighthouses. Signed in hand “George R. Putnam Class of ‘90”.The Rose Technic. Vol. XLII Number 7. 1933.
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13221c. (circular distributed to light-3rd District keepers) Light-House Establishment. General Depot. Thompkinsville. 1909. Re. Reporting Damage. November 4, 1909.
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1407. (personnel record card) U.S. Lighthouse Service Form 42 Personnel Record Card c.1936.
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20178-US. [map]. U. S. Light-House Service. Continental United States and Alaska Map of Districts c.1890-1910.
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15190. Treasury Department, United States Light-House Establishment. REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE UNIFORMS FOR OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE SERVICE. 1893.
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6762-25. United States Light House Establishment Lighthouse Lamp Feeder / Oil Filling Can c.1880-1900.
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6762-24. United States Light House Establishment Lighthouse Lamp Feeder / Oil Filling Can c.1880-1900
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1610. (advertisement) Lighthouse Keeper Listens to RCA Radiola c.1926.
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28421c. (cover) Official U. S. Light-House Establishment return envelope c.1908
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1648. (2 documents) Department of Commerce. Lighthouse Service. Appointment / Resignation of Clerk c.1921-1922.
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16118b. (cabinet photograph) Light House Establishment 2nd. Assistant Keeper John P. Brooks, Whaleback Lighthouse c.1900.
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1747. Mattson, Jan. CALIFORNIA LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS – A Look at Lighthouse Life Through the Eyes of the People Who Lived It. Goat Rock. 2016
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10403. (lot 2 books) U.S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross (1882). Marine Fisheries Review. Vol. 61. No. 4. 1999
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27172. (copy sets) Bureau of Lighthouses. Lighthouse Service Bulletins 1912-1935.
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1166. United States Light House Establishment. “Price List of Standard Articles (for Lighthouse Purposes) Furnished from General Depot, Thompkinsville, New York. 1901”.
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23327c. LIGHTHOUSES AND OTHER AIDS TO THE MARINER. Museum Publication No. 15. The Mariner’s Museum. Newport News . 1946
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8432c. Wetherill, Fred V., BOYS AND BUOYS. Philadelphia 1928
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21384. Reproduction United States Light-House Service Dinnerware “U.S.L.H.S.”
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13107. Rustic Cast Iron U.S. Lighthouse Service Insignia Sign 9”.
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1104. Menz, Katherine. POINT LOMA LIGHTHOUSE: CABRILLO NATIONAL MONUMENT, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – Historic Furnishings Report. 1978
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16118a. (cabinet photograph) Light House Establishment Principal Keeper c.1890-1900.
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17160. (stationery sheet) U. S. Lighthouse Service, Third District c.1920’s.
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1842. (document) Lighthouse Service. Department of Commerce. Notice of Check Transmittal c.1911.
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1934a,b,c. (copy photo) U.S. Lighthouse Service Truck 2nd District c.1919
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28421d. (cover) Official U. S. Light-House Establishment envelope c.1900.
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1939. (tintype) U.S. Light House Service Keeper c.1870. 1/6th plate.
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3092. (copy photo) Workers in Lamp Shop at the U.S. Lighthouse Service Depot, Staten Island c.1890’s view.
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11125. (photo) Lighthouse Keeper Poses With His Family c.1890
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6366-1. Putnam, George R. LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS OF THE UNITED STATES. Cambridge. 1933
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6249. Crowninshield, Mary Bradford. ALL AMONG THE LIGHTHOUSES or THE CRUISE OF THE GOLDENROD. Boston. 1886
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20363. Flint , Willard. LIGHTSHIPS OF THE U. S. GOVERNMENT – Reference Notes. GPO 1989
