Guide to the Lighthouse Postcards Collection
NMAH.AC.1055 Archives Center Staff
2018
Archives Center, National Museum of American History P.O. Box 37012 Suite 1100, MRC 601 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 [email protected] http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives Table of Contents
Collection Overview ...... 1 Administrative Information ...... 1 Scope and Contents note...... 2 Arrangement...... 2 Names and Subjects ...... 2 Container Listing ...... 3 Series 1: Postcards...... 3 Lighthouse Postcards Collection NMAH.AC.1055
Collection Overview
Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Title: Lighthouse Postcards Collection
Identifier: NMAH.AC.1055
Date: undated
Extent: 0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
Creator: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry
Language: English .
Administrative Information
Immediate Source of Acquisiton Immediate source of acquistion unknown.
Ownership and Custodial History Collected for the National Museum of American History.
Ownership and Custodial History The collection was transferred to the Archives Center in 2007 by the Division of Work and Industry.
Processing Information Collection processed by Archives Center Staff,
Preferred Citation Lighthouse Postcard Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Restrictions on Access Collection is open for research.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
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Scope and Contents
Postcards depicting lighthouses in the United States and Canada.
Arrangement
1 series.
Names and Subject Terms
This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:
Subjects: Lighthouses
Types of Materials: Picture postcards -- 20th century Postcards
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Container Listing
Series 1: Postcards
Box 1 Absecon, New Jersey Image(s)
Box 1 Annisquam Harbor (Wigwam Pt.), Massachusetts Image(s) Bluemner, Oscar, 1867-1938 Topic: A new term created by Spreadsheet Rodeo performers
Box 1 Assateague, Virginia Image(s) Bluemner, Oscar, 1867-1938 Topic: Rodeo performers
Box 1 Avery Rock, Maine Image(s) Bluemner, Oscar, 1867-1938
Box 1 Baker Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Baker's Island, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Barnegat, New Jersey Image(s)
Box 1 Bass Harbor Head, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Bear Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Beavertail, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Belle Isle, Michigan Image(s)
Box 1 Big Sable, Michigan
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Image(s)
Box 1 Billingsgate Island, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Biloxi, Mississippi Image(s)
Box 1 Bishop and Clerks, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Black Rock (Fayerweather I.), Connecticut Image(s)
Box 1 Block Island North, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Block Island South-East, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Blue Hill Bay, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Bodie Island, North Carolina Image(s)
Box 1 Boon Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Borden Flats, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Boston, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Brant Point, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut Image(s)
Box 1 Bristol Ferry, Rhode Island
Box 1 Browns Head, Maine
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Image(s)
Box 1 Buffalo (Main), New York (GL) Image(s)
Box 1 Bullock Point, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Burlington Main, California Image(s)
Box 1 Burnt Coat Harbor, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Burnt Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Butler Flats, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Cape Ann (Thacher Island), Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Cape Cod (Highland), Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Cape Elizabeth, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Cape Florida, Florida Image(s)
Box 1 Cape Hatteras, North Californiarolina Image(s)
Box 1 Cape Henlopen, Deleware Image(s)
Box 1 Cape Henry, Virginia Image(s)
Box 1 Cape May, New Jersey Image(s)
Box 1 Cape Neddick, Maine
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Image(s)
Box 1 Cape Poge, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Castle Hill, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Cedar Island, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Chapel Hill Beacon (rear), New Jersey Image(s)
Box 1 Chatham, MA Image(s)
Box 1 Cleveland West Pier, Ohio Image(s)
Box 1 Conimicut, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Coxsackie, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Crabtree Ledge, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Cross Ledge Beacon, New Jersey Image(s)
Box 1 Currituck Beach, North Carolina Image(s)
Box 1 Curtis Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Deer Island, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Deer Island Thorofare, Maine
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Image(s)
Box 1 Destruction Island, Washington Image(s)
Box 1 Dice Head, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Doubling Point, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Duluth North Pier, Minnesota Image(s)
Box 1 Dumpling Rock, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Dunkirk, New York (GL) Image(s)
Box 1 Dutch Island, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Eagle Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 East Chop, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 East Point (formerly Maurice River), New Jersey Image(s)
Box 1 Eastern Point, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Edgartown, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Egg Rock, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Erie Harbor Pierhead, Pennsylvania Image(s)
Box 1 Erie Land, Pennsylvania
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Image(s)
Box 1 Faulkner Island, Connecticut Image(s)
Box 1 Fenwick Island, Deleware Image(s)
Box 1 Finn's Point Rear, New Jersey Image(s)
Box 1 Fire Island, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Fort Gratiot, Michigan Image(s)
Box 1 Fort Niagara, New York (GL) Image(s)
Box 1 Fort Pickering (Winter Island), Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Fort Point, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Fowey Rocks, Florida Image(s)
Box 1 Franklin Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Fuller Rock, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Gay Head, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Goat Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Goose Rocks, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Grand Haven South Pierhead (Inner Light), Michigan
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Image(s)
Box 1 Graves, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Great Captain Island, Connecticut Image(s)
Box 1 Grindel Point, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Gull Rocks, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Halfway Rock, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Hendricks Head, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Hereford Inlet, New Jersey Image(s)
Box 1 Heron Neck, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Hillsboro Inlet, Florida Image(s)
Box 1 Hilton Head Rear Range (Leamington), South Carolina
Box 1 Hog Island Shoal, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Horton Point, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Hospital Point (Beverly Harbor), Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Hudson City, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Huron, Ohio
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Image(s)
Box 1 Huron Island, Michigan Image(s)
Box 1 Indian Island, Maine
Box 1 Isles of Shoals (White Island), New Hampshire Image(s)
Box 1 Jeffrey's Hook, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Jordan Point, Virginia Image(s)
Box 1 Jupiter Inlet, Florida Image(s)
Box 1 Key West, Florida Image(s)
Box 1 Latimer Reef, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Lazaretto Point, Maryland Image(s)
Box 1 Libby Islands, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Lighthouse Point (New Haven), Connecticut Image(s)
Box 1 Lime Rock (Ida Lewis), Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Little Gull Island, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Little River, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Little Sable, Michigan
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Image(s)
Box 1 Long Beach Bar ("Bug Light"), New York Image(s)
Box 1 Long Island Head, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Long Point, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Lubec Channel, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Marblehead (Mass), Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Marblehead (Ohio), Ohio Image(s)
Box 1 Marshall Point, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Matinicus Rock, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Mayo's Beach, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Michigan Island (Old Tower), Wisconsin Image(s)
Box 1 Mile Rocks, California Image(s)
Box 1 Minot's Ledge, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Monhegan Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Monomoy Point, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Montauk Point, New York
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Image(s)
Box 1 Moose Peak, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Morgan Point (Noank), Connecticut Image(s)
Box 1 Mount Desert Rock, Maine
Box 1 Narragaugus (Pond Island), Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Narrows (Bug Light), Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Nash Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Nauset Beach, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Navesink, New Jersey Image(s)
Box 1 Ned Point, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 New London Harbor, Connecticut Image(s)
Box 1 New London Ledge, Connecticut Image(s)
Box 1 Newburyport Harbor (Plum Island), Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Newport Harbor (Goat Island), Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Nobska Point, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 North Brother Island, New York
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Image(s)
Box 1 North Head, Washington Image(s)
Box 1 North Point (Milwaukee), Wisconsin Image(s)
Box 1 Nottawasaga Island, California Image(s)
Box 1 Ocracoke, North Carolina Image(s)
Box 1 Ogdensburg, New York (GL) Image(s)
Box 1 Old Field Point, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Old Mission Point, Michigan Image(s)
Box 1 Old Point Comfort, Virginia Image(s)
Box 1 Old Point Loma, California Image(s)
Box 1 Orient Point, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Outer Island, Wisconsin Image(s)
Box 1 Owls Head, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Passage Island, Michigan Image(s)
Box 1 Pemaquid Point, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Penfield Reef, Connecticut
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Image(s)
Box 1 Pensacola, Florida Image(s)
Box 1 Petit Manan, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Plum Beach, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Plum Island, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Plymouth (Gurnet), Massachusetts
Box 1 Point Comfort Beacon (front), New Jersey Image(s)
Box 1 Point Edward Range Front, California Image(s)
Box 1 Point Fermin, California Image(s)
Box 1 Point Isabel (Port Isabel), Texas Image(s)
Box 1 Point Judith, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Point Loma, California Image(s)
Box 1 Pomham Rocks, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Ponce de Leon Inlet, Florida Image(s)
Box 1 Pond Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Poplar Point, Rhode Island
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Image(s)
Box 1 Port Clinton, Ohio Image(s)
Box 1 Portland Breakwater, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Portland Head, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire Image(s)
Box 1 Prospect Harbor, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Prudence Island (Sand Pt), Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Pumpkin Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Race Point, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Race Rock, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Ram Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Ram Island Ledge, Maine
Box 1 Rockland Breakwater, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Rose Island, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Sabin's Point, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Saddleback Ledge, Maine
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Image(s)
Box 1 Saint Croix Island, Maine
Box 1 Sakonnet Point, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Sanibel Island, Florida Image(s)
Box 1 Sankaty Head, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Sassafras Point, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Saugerties, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Saybrook (Lynde Point), Connecticut
Box 1 Saybrook Breakwater, Connecticut Image(s)
Box 1 Scituate, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Sea Girt, New Jersey Image(s)
Box 1 Seguin Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Ship Island Lighthouse, Mississippi Image(s)
Box 1 Ship John Shoal, Deleware Image(s)
Box 1 Sodus Point, New York (GL) Image(s)
Box 1 South Bass Island, Ohio Image(s)
Box 1 Southwest Ledge, Connecticut
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Image(s)
Box 1 Spectacle Island Range Lights, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Sperry Breakwater, Connecticut Image(s)
Box 1 Spring Point Ledge, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 St. Augustine, Florida Image(s)
Box 1 St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina Image(s)
Box 1 St. Simons Island, Georgia Image(s)
Box 1 Stamford Harbor, Connecticut Image(s)
Box 1 Stepping Stones, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Stonington Harbor, Connecticut Image(s)
Box 1 Straitsmouth, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Stratford Point, Connecticut Image(s)
Box 1 Tarrytown, New York Image(s)
Box 1 Tenants Harbor, Maine
Box 1 The Cuckolds, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Thimble Shoal, Virginia
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Image(s)
Box 1 Tibbetts Point, New York (GL) Image(s)
Box 1 Tillamook Rock, Oregon Image(s)
Box 1 Two Bush Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Tybee Island, Georgia Image(s)
Box 1 Umpqua River, Oregon Image(s)
Box 1 Waackaack (rear), New Jersey Image(s)
Box 1 Watch Hill, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Waukegan Breakwater, Illinois Image(s)
Box 1 West Chop, MA Image(s)
Box 1 West Point, New York Image(s)
Box 1 West Quoddy Head, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Whale Rock, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Whaleback, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Whitehead, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Whitlocks Mill, Maine
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Image(s)
Box 1 Wickford Harbor, Rhode Island Image(s)
Box 1 Wind Point (Racine Point), Wisconsin Image(s)
Box 1 Windmill Point (CAN), CaliforniaN Image(s)
Box 1 Windmill Point (VA), Virginia Image(s)
Box 1 Winter Harbor, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Wood End, Massachusetts Image(s)
Box 1 Wood Island, Maine Image(s)
Box 1 Yaquina Head, Oregon Image(s)
Box 1 Yerba Buena, California Image(s)
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