1508. (mounted photo) White Island Lighthouse, Isles of Shoals, NH. c.1940.
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1508. (mounted photo) White Island Lighthouse, Isles of Shoals, NH. c.1940.
1508. (mounted photo) White Island Lighthouse, Isles of Shoals, NH. c.1940. 5” x 5” overall. Early mounted photo shows great detail of the lighthouse and long walkway on White Island. The Isles of Shoals, a cluster of nine islands located several miles off the seacoast of New Hampshire, were described by Robert Thayer Sterling in Maine Lighthouses and the Men Who Keep Them as “a low lying group apparently composed of masses of tumbled granite bleached white by the unceasing beating of the storm king and the glare of the blazing sun.” The islands were frequented by European fishermen for years before the first lighthouse built on White Island in 1820. In the 1930’s, Keeper Laighton’s daughter, Celia, later gained widespread fame as Celia Thaxter, poet and author. In her 1930 book, Among the Isles of Shoals, she described the family’s arrival and life White Island Lighthouse. Photo is clean and clear, just a bit light. (VG). $20.