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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14199a,b. (document) U.S. Light-House Establishment Repair Voucher, Painting Piles & Braces Narrows (Bug) Light House, Boston Harbor c.1860.
14199a. (document) U.S. Light-House Establishment Repair Voucher, Painting Piles & Braces Narrows (Bug) Light House, Boston Harbor c.1860. Early pre- civil war document details items purchased and delivered to Lieut. C. N. Trumbull, Light House Engineer, for painting the piles and braces of the Boston Narrows Light Station. Items listed include scrapers, etc. at a cost of $2.20. Dated October 5, 1860. Document is signed by Light House Engineer Charles N. Turnbull. Built in 1856, Bug Light stood, until destroyed by fire in 1929, to warn mariners of the dreaded Harding’s Ledge, four miles to the southeast. The lighthouse constructed was a screw-pile type on iron “legs” (thus its nickname “Bug Light”), with a hexagonal wooden dwelling with galvanized metal roof and lantern perched on top. This lighthouse design was quite unusual at the time and was the first such design constructed in New England . Document is good condition, with original folds, some edge wear to top and bottom. Measures 8 ½” x 14”. (VG). $64.
14199b. (document) U.S. Light-House Establishment Repair Voucher, Painting Piles & Braces Narrows (Bug) Light House, Boston Harbor c.1860. Early pre- civil war document details items purchased and delivered to Lieut. C. N. Trumbull, Light House Engineer, for painting the piles and braces of the Boston Narrows Light Station. Items listed include 1 gallon paraffine varnish, etc. at a cost of $1.25. Dated October 6, 1860. Document is signed by Light House Engineer Charles N. Turnbull. Built in 1856, Bug Light stood, until destroyed by fire in 1929, to warn mariners of the dreaded Harding’s Ledge, four miles to the southeast. The lighthouse constructed was a screw-pile type on iron “legs” (thus its nickname “Bug Light”), with a hexagonal wooden dwelling with galvanized metal roof and lantern perched on top. This lighthouse design was quite unusual at the time and was the first such design constructed in New England . Document is good condition, with original folds, some edge wear to top and bottom. Measures 8 ½” x 14”. (VG). $64.