Craighill's channel range or leading lights, Chesapeake Bay--The high light – Historic Print
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A window into the past: Craighill's channel range or leading lights, Chesapeake Bay--The high light, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Craighill's channel range or leading lights, Chesapeake Bay--The high light
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This plate shows the high light of Craighill's channel range, a pair of markers set up to guide ships through a dredged channel in the Chesapeake Bay. The two lights were aligned so that a mariner who kept the upper light directly above the lower one stayed in the middle of the safe water. Col. William P. Craighill of the Army Corps of Engineers, who worked with the U.S. Light-House Board, helped plan such ranges to make navigation on the bay safer. The engraving appeared in the board's 1873 annual report, one of many illustrations the government used to document its aids to navigation.
| Created / published | 1873 |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Below print: Am. Photo-Relief, Printing Co., Phila. Illus. in: Annual Report of the U.S. Light-House Board, 1873, plate opposite p. 44. |
| Original scan | 2,785 × 1,937 px · prints to 9 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif09348_Craighillschannelrangeorleadin |
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