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34005. (shot line for) Model CG85 Bridger Line Throwing Gun Kit, Naval Company, Doylestown, PA.
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34006. Kasparian, Lance. National Park Service. U.S. Coast Guard Nauset Station Dwelling and Boathouse. Historic Structure Report. Cape Cod National Seashore. January 2008. 282p. Soft wraps.
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34004. (Stereoview) Long Island Head Lighthouse, Boston Harbor c.1870
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8109-128. [commissioning pennant] U. S. Coast Guard Commissioning Pennant from USCGC Steadfast (WMEC-623) c.1970.
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FG-02.. Early Life-saving Line Gun. Heat Transfer Products Company.
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9202b. Foss, William O., THE NORWEGIAN LADY AND THE WRECK OF THE DICTATOR. Norfolk, Va. 1977
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31112. (postcard) Fourth Cliff Coast Guards Drill, Hauling out Heavy Line, Humarock [Scituate], Mass. c1915.
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18107j. (tintype – occupational) Gentleman in Bowler Hat c.1870. 1/6th plate.
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33123. (glass plate negative) Fastnet Rock Lighthouse Under Construction, Ireland. c.1901
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33151a,b. (glass plate negatives) U.S. Life-Saving Service Crew, Newburyport, Mass. c.1890
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1521. [reproduction] U. S. Lighthouse Service Station Flags.
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34001. Late Victorian Oak Cased The Life-buoy Aneroid Barometer By Dollond Of London c.1880.
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4365s. United States Life-Saving Service. INSTRUCTIONS TO MARINERS IN CASE OF SHIPWRECK WITH INFORMATION CONCERNING THE LIFE-SAVING STATIONS UPON THE COASTS OF THE UNITED STATES. Washington. GPO. 1881. 36p. Early edition.
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2391f. Massachusetts Humane Society porcelain sign c.1900.
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33147. (chart) Seguin Island to Kennebunkport, Maine #107. USGS Edition of 1878.
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33149. (chart) Mount Desert Island – Frenchman’s and Blue Hill Bays and Approaches, Maine #103. USGS. Edition of October 1883.
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33155. (Lot 6 diagrams) USCGC POLAR STAR (WAGB 10) Damage Control Diagrams c.1991.
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33153. (stereoview print) Government Lighthouse, Fort Williams, Ontario Canada c.1900 view.
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33158. (paperweight) Chatham Lifesavers Launching Surfboat, Cape Cod c.1900.
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33159. (lot) Misc. items found at site of Cahoons Hollow Life-Saving Station, Wellfleet, Cape Cod.
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Cape Cod Life-Saving Stations – Items Found Over the Years
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33163. (lot) U.S. Coast Guard Lightship / Cutter Disposition Documents c.1955.
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33164. (copy) U.S. Revenue Marine Service. General Orders Regarding Uniforms of Officers and Crew. March 15, 1871.
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23371i. United States Lighthouse Establishment/Service Post Lantern c.1880’s.
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22506f. Snow, Edward Rowe. LIGHTHOUSE DATE BOOK – A Colonial Date Book. Boston. Colonial Publishing. c.1960.
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33160. (cabinet photos) Ruins of Chatham Early Lighthouse and Keeper’s Dwelling c.1887.
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33161. (photo) U.S. Life Saving Service Crew, Minot, Mass. c.1910.
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33157. (brass pressure gauge & photo lot) U.S. Lighthouse Tender Cedar c.1916.
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33145. (chart) From Penobscot Bay to Kennebec Entrance, Maine #105. United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Edition of October 1877.
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33154. Palmer, Rob. A Fireman in the Making: Manhattan 1904. Dorrance Pub. 2024.
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33144. (nautical chart) Imray Blueback Chart of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and New England 1888. “Coast of North America Between the Strait of Belle Island and Cape Cod. Published in London by James Imray & Son. 1888.
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33148. (chart) Penobscot Bay, Maine #104. USCGS. Edition of October 1880.
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12199d. U. S. Lighthouse Service Chronograph – Stopwatch. “U.S.L.H.S.”
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24102. United States Life Saving Service / Coast Guard Beach Apparatus Hawser Cutter.
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33146. [chart] United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Massachusetts Bay #1207. Edition of June 1935
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33150. [chart] PROVINCETOWN HARBOR. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Edition of December 1910.
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33141. Ripa, Kelly. Live Wire – Long-Winded Short Stories. Deyst. Harper Collins. 2022.
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21422J. SURFMAN PATROLLING THE SHORE. The Saturday Evening Post. December 19, 1931.
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33140. (photo) Keeper Bon South with Daughter, Sitting on Fog Whistle, Point Vincente Light Station, California c.1927.
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6507p. [blanket] U. S. LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE WOOL BLANKET. c.1900.
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13408. Henry, Ellen J. The Lighthouse Service and the Great War. Ponce Inlet. 2013.
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SQ-06. U.S. Life Saving Service Night Watchman’s Rattle “USLSS”.