Mount Desert Light-station, looking NNE, before new dwelling was erected – Antique Wall Art
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Mount Desert Light-station, looking NNE, before new dwelling was erected comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mount Desert Light-station, looking NNE, before new dwelling was erected
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Mount Desert Rock, a bare granite outcrop roughly 25 miles southeast of Mount Desert Island, Maine, sits so far offshore that its light station was among the most isolated on the Atlantic coast. This view looks north-northeast across the rock's buildings before a new keeper's dwelling was put up, so it records the station in the arrangement its keepers and their families had to work with. Lighthouses like this one depended on supply boats and on keepers who lived on the rock for long stretches, so the modest structures in the frame say a good deal about daily life there. The photograph is useful for seeing how the station was laid out before later changes.
| Original scan | 1,302 × 719 px · prints to 4 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif09366_MountDesertlightstationlooking |
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