The World of Lighthouses on the Postcards of Yesterday and Today
TITLE: Boston Light, Boston Harbor
CAPTION: For over 200 years the historic Boston Light has guarded the entrance to Boston Harbor, showing to safety the countless ships that enter and leave the busy Port of Boston daily.
POSTCARD ID: 48 and 64466
PUBLISHER: “Tichnor Quality Views” Tichnor Bros., Inc., Boston, MASS.
POSTMARK: None – Not Used Postally
TITLE: Breakwater Light, Rockland, Maine
CAPTION: None
POSTCARD ID: OB-H1563
PUBLISHER: State News Company, Rockland, Maine
POSTMARK: None, Not Used Postally
TITLE: “Hereford Inlet Lighthouse”
CAPTION: Wildwood-by-the-Sea, N.J.
The second most powerful “light” on the Eastern seaboard. The United States Coast Guard station at “Hereford Inlet,” Wildwood-by-the-Sea, New Jersey
POSTCARD ID: K-145-D-13 and 43669
PUBLISHER: Pub. by Atlantic Tobacco Co.,, Wildwood, N.J.
POSTMARK: None, Not Used Postally
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TITLE: “TWIN LIGHTS”
CAPTION: Thatcher’s Island, Massachusetts
Just off the shore of Cape Ann. Built 1771. The only twin lighthouses along the Atlantic Coast. Under ordinary atmospheric conditions they can be seen approximately 19 miles from out at sea.
From a Painting by J. Bradford Hague
POSTCARD ID: 72291
PUBLISHER: Pub. by J. Bradford Hague, New York, N.Y.
POSTMARK: None – Not Used Postally
TITLE: Historic Lighthouse at Biloxi, Mississippi
CAPTION: “Old Biloxi Light is one of the oldest lighthouses in America and is the city’s most treasured historical object. It is located on West Beach Boulevard and has been in use for nearly a century and still is in use today.
POSTCARD ID: 136
PUBLISHER: Pub. by the Sadler News Company, Gulfport, Mississippi
POSTMARK: None, Not Used Postally
TITLE: Pla-Port Lighthouse, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri
CAPTION: Pla-Port Lighthouse is the only privately operated lighthouse on any inland lake in the United States.
Lake of the Ozarks – 130 Miles long and a shoreline of 1372 miles covers an area of 65,000 acres.
POSTCARD ID: 5B427-N
PUBLISHER: Distributed by Corwin News Agency, Jefferson City, MO.
Missouri Dept. of Resources and Development, Photo by Hammond and Irwin
POSTMARK: None, Not Used Postally
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TITLE: Spring Point Light, Portland Harbor, Portland, Maine
CAPTION: None
POSTCARD ID: 29141
PUBLISHER: The Leighton & Valentine Co., N.Y. City
Printed in the United States
POSTMARK: None, Not Used Postally
TITLE: Cape Blanco Light House, Most Western Point on Coast, Oregon Coast Highway
CAPTION: None
POSTCARD ID: 965 and 2A184-N
PUBLISHER: Wesley Andrews Co., Portland, Ore
POSTMARK: None, Not Used Postally
TITLE: Whaleback Light, Portsmouth, N.H.
CAPTION: None
POSTCARD ID: 63177
PUBLISHER: Pub. by Harry Winebaum News Agency, Portsmouth, N.H.
POSTMARK: None, Not Used Postally
TITLE: Pigeon Point Lighthouse, California
CAPTION: The point itself was actually named for an earlier shipwreck, that of the Carrier Pigeon in 1853. After three more wrecks in the 1860’s the San Mateo County Gazette wrote: “No other one place on the Pacific Coast has proved so fatal to navigators as this locality … all of the vessels that have been lost in the vicinity of Pigeon Point have been wrecked in consequence of dense fogs which prevented the land from being sighted until the vessels were among the breakers.” First lit in 1872, the lighthouse prevented many disasters, but not all. Seen here in 1934.
POSTCARD ID: 3
PUBLISHER: www.mostcards.com
POSTMARK: None, Not Used Postally.