13454. (photo) Keeper Eliza Campbell Cleans Fresnel Drum Lens at Canada’s Scatari Island Light Station c.1959.
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13454. (photo) Keeper Eliza Campbell Cleans Fresnel Drum Lens at Canada’s Scatari Island Light Station c.1959.
13454. (photo) Keeper Eliza Campbell Cleans Fresnel Drum Lens at Canada’s Scatari Island Light Station c.1959. Clear, close original 7” x 9” press photo shows great detail of the large drum lens as Keeper Campbell tends the light. Since 1942 when her husband died, Mrs. Campbell has continued keeping the light station on the bleak and forbidding dot of land off Cape Breton Island. Mrs. Campbell keeps her vigil 11 months of the year with the remaining 1 month annual leave. Photo is b/w and includes date and credit line and description on back. Dated December 28, 1959. Clear and close view. (VG+). $44.