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Pigeon Point Lighthouse, California

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.

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Eagle Lighthouse Wisconsin

TITLE: Eagle Lighthouse, Peninsula State Park

CAPTION: Deer County, Wisconsin
Copyright 1957, The L.L. Cook Co.
POSTCARD ID: 145-X and 25952
PUBLISHER: The L.L. Cook Co., Milwaukee, Wis
POSTMARK: None, Not Used Postally

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Just in time for Halloween! Pumpkin Island Light

TITLE: Pumpkin Island Light

 CAPTION:  Discontinued as a Lighthouse PUMPKIN ISLAND, at the west end of Eggemoggin Reach, reflects the morning light.  To the west is Penobscot Bay and Camden hills.
POSTCARD ID: #37 and 87683
PUBLISHER: Pub. by Augustus D. Phillips & Son – Northeast Harbor, Maine U.S.A.
POSTMARK: None, not used postally

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Lobster Point Lighthouse, Marginal Way, Ogunquit, Maine

TITLE:  MARGINAL WAY, OGUNQUIT, MAINE 

CAPTION: Shown here is the Lobster Point Light, a section of the rocky coast, and the bathing beach at Ogunquit.
POSTCARD ID: M-1418 and 7905-C
PUBLISHER: Pub. by Eastern Illustrating & Publishing, Camden, Maine
POSTMARK: None, Not Used Postally