12285n. [photo] Edward Rowe Snow Readies Christmas Packages for Boston Harbor Light Keepers. c. 1943
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12285n. [photo] Edward Rowe Snow Readies Christmas Packages for Boston Harbor Light Keepers. c. 1943
12285n. [photo] Edward Rowe Snow Readies Christmas Packages for Boston Harbor Light Keepers. c. 1943. Large 7”x9” b/w press photograph shows Mr. Snow with two Winthrop Junior High School students preparing packages for delivery to Boston Harbor light stations. Using a motor launch, Mr. Snow is beginning his annual tour of Boston Harbor forts and lighthouses to deliver packages for Christmas. Each year Mr. Snow, wife Anna and daughter Dorothy readied packages for their well known yearly Christmas airdrops to remote lighthouses and Coast Guard stations. In 1926, Captain William Wincapaw began the tradition of dropping Christmas gift packages from his plane to remote lighthouse families. In 1936, author and historian Edward Rowe Snow would continue the “Flying Santa” tradition, which continues to this day by local groups. In past years Mr. Snow would drop the gifts from a plane, but wartime restrictions on civilian flying forced him to use a launch. When this photo was taken, Captain Snow had returned from the War with grave injuries and recuperated for over a year before resuming his Christmas missions. Photo is clean and clear and quite a nice close view including a pile of presents. Includes news caption on the back. Dated December 23, 1943. Quite nice. (VG+). $56.