1078. (engraved photo plate) Peaked Hill Bar Life Saving Station, Provincetown, Cape Cod c.1898
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1078. (engraved photo plate) Peaked Hill Bar Life Saving Station, Provincetown, Cape Cod c.1898
1078. (engraved photo plate) Peaked Hill Bar Life Saving Station, Provincetown, Cape Cod c.1898 by E. A. Perry. Fine early engraved photo plate disbound from early Cape Cod view booklet, provides a fine close view of this expanded Red House-type station. This was one of the original nine stations which were erected on Cape Cod in 1872. The first keeper, David H. Atkins, was appointed in 1872 at the age of 34, with 22 years experience as a surfman. On November 30, 1880, Keeper Atkins and two of his crew died trying to assist the sloop C. E. Trumbull with a cargo of coal for ballast and a crew of six, when she stranded in a violent northwest gale on the outer bar in the neighborhood of the station. Plate measures 5” x 7” and is clean, one clight fold to corner. (VG). $26.