Light-house at Mare Island, California – Antique Wall Art
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A window into the past: Light-house at Mare Island, California, 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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Light-house at Mare Island, California
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Set in San Pablo Bay near Vallejo, Mare Island was home to the first U.S. Navy shipyard on the Pacific coast, and its light helped guide vessels past the island's shallow flats and busy waterfront. The station served pilots and naval traffic in a bay where tides and currents shift constantly. A photograph from 1872 captures a working coastline in its early years, when lighthouses were still the main way ships found safe passage through the region's channels. Notice how the light stands in a wide, open setting, a reminder of how much of the Bay Area's shoreline was still lightly built.
| Created / published | 1872 |
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| Original scan | 2,777 × 1,973 px · prints to 9 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif09345_LighthouseatMareIslandCaliforn |
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