Light House at South-West-Pass, Louisiana – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Light House at South-West-Pass, Louisiana, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Light House at South-West-Pass, Louisiana
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
The South-West Pass lighthouse stood at the mouth of the Mississippi River, where the main channel meets the Gulf of Mexico, and it guided ships into one of the busiest ports in the country. Built on the shifting sandbars of the delta, the tower was a practical answer to a dangerous approach, since vessels had to thread a narrow, constantly changing channel to reach New Orleans. Worth noticing is how exposed the site was: the land there is low and marshy, so the structure had to be engineered to stand on unstable ground while withstanding storms off the Gulf.
| Original scan | 2,011 × 2,813 px · prints to 7 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
|---|---|
| Reference | tif09350_LighthouseatSouthWestPassLouis |
More from the Lighthouses collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
