U.S. lighthouse service in Hawaii. Barber's Point light on the island of Oahu – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with U.S. lighthouse service in Hawaii. Barber's Point light on the island of Oahu, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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U.S. lighthouse service in Hawaii. Barber's Point light on the island of Oahu
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Barbers Point Light stands on the low, dry southwestern coast of Oahu, where the island's reefs and shoals made the approach to Honolulu's harbor hazardous for ships. This photograph, taken between 1930 and 1940, shows the station as the U.S. Lighthouse Service maintained it in that period, when the federal agency oversaw aids to navigation across the territory. Hawaii's lighthouses were vital to the islands' shipping, which depended on steamers and sailing vessels carrying cargo and passengers across the Pacific. The print offers a useful record of how these coastal stations looked before the Lighthouse Service was folded into the Coast Guard in 1939.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [between 1930 and 1940] |
| Subjects | Lighthouses--Hawaii--Oahu--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,623 × 4,458 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif09105_USlighthouseserviceinHawaiiBar |
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