20511-20. [document] This is a 1-page voucher from the files of Light-House Inspector L. Sitgreaves, for the Eleventh Light-House District.
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20511-20. [document] This is a 1-page voucher from the files of Light-House Inspector L. Sitgreaves, for the Eleventh Light-House District.
20511-20. [document] This is a 1-page voucher from the files of Light-House Inspector L. Sitgreaves, for the Eleventh Light-House District. Dated 9 November 1854. Payment voucher lists repairs performed on the Waukegan [Harbor, Racine, Wisconsin] Lighthouse during the period March until August 24, 1854 and authorizes payment of $120.45. Some of the work on the lighthouse detailed includes; stovepipe for lighthouse tower, padlock, cordwood, chimneys for lamps, masonry work, materials for staging and repairs detailed, labor for fitting zinc on deck, and more. Document is filled out on official Light-House Establishment form in the hand of Capt. Sitgreaves and is signed by him. Capt. Sitgreaves was Light-House Inspector in the Eleventh District, and designed and built a number of light stations in his long career. This document is part of an important lot of early documents of the period just after the complete reorganization of the Light-House Establishment and institution of the new Light-House Board. During this point many lighthouses were repaired and many new stations established. Document measures 8″ x 12″, two sides, with 3 original light folds, extremely clean, crisp. A most interesting and scarce early Great Lakes.