6366-1. Putnam, George R. LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS OF THE UNITED STATES. Cambridge. 1933
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6366-1. Putnam, George R. LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS OF THE UNITED STATES. Cambridge. 1933
6366-1. Putnam, George R. LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS OF THE UNITED STATES. Cambridge , MA . 1933 2nd ed. 324pp. DJ. Contains 48 photos and maps. Historical and descriptive work by the then Commissioner of Lighthouses. Good information from a most reliable source, nice overall view. Includes chapters on the history and organization, Boston Light and the Colonial Lights, U.S. lighthouses around the country, lighthouse construction and apparatus, lightships and lighthouse tenders, buoys and daymarks, fog signals, the light-keepers, and much more. This most important work has become quite scarce. Unusually clean and crisp, rarely opened, in good dj., two chips. (VG+). 128.