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Fashion Skinnerssatin – Historic Print

Fashion Skinnerssatin — historic image
Fashion Skinnerssatin. Historic image from the Lighthouses collection.

(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 Fashion Skinnerssatin, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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The record's title, "Fashion Skinnerssatin," does not clearly name a particular light, so the exact location and date of this picture remain uncertain. It is filed under lighthouses, and such towers were built along coasts and harbor mouths to mark hazards and guide ships at night, often with a keeper living on site to tend the lamp. Many were fitted with Fresnel lenses by the 19th century, and their silhouettes became familiar landmarks that mariners used to fix their position. Studying the tower's construction and its surroundings can reveal much about the coastline it once served.

Original scan2,859 × 3,699 px · prints to 10 × 12 in at 300 dpi
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