34013. (mounted photo) Tybee Island Lighthouse, Ga., with 1887-1914 daymarks / range lights.
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34013. (mounted photo) Tybee Island Lighthouse, Ga., with 1887-1914 daymarks / range lights.
- (mounted photo) Tybee Island Lighthouse, Ga., with 1887-1914 daymarks / range lights. Large 8 ¼” x 5 ¼” mounted photo provides a great detailed view of the tall lighthouse, Keeper’s house and two 1877 front range light towers and more. Backstamped “M. Edw. Wilson The Photographer, Savannah, GA.” “A fifty-foot tower was built seaward of the lighthouse in 1822, and an array of lamps in the shorter tower paired with those in the main tower functioned as a range light. As American lighthouses adopted the use of Fresnel lenses, Tybee Lighthouse received a second-order lens in 1857, while the front light was given a fourth-order lens. In 1866 after the Civil War a first-order Fresnel lens was placed in the lantern room. The all-white structure, flanked by new keeper’s dwellings, displayed its fixed white light for the first time on October 1, 1867, along with a new fourth-order beacon light displayed from atop a fifty-foot skeletal tower.” Light foxing but does not detract. Punched for attachment into book or album. Great detail. (VG). $44.