Eagle Island Light, (4th order), Penobscot Bay, Maine – Historic Print
![Eagle Island Light, (4th order), Penobscot Bay, Maine, [between 1884 and 1891] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/76/76333a4acf2d-L.webp)
(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 Eagle Island Light, (4th order), Penobscot Bay, Maine, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Eagle Island Light, (4th order), Penobscot Bay, Maine
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The subject is Eagle Island Light, a fourth-order lighthouse on a rocky island in Penobscot Bay, Maine, which guided vessels through the bay's crowded approaches to Castine and Bangor. Fourth-order lenses were small optics used at minor stations, so the light marked a modest but useful point on a coast where fog and ledges made navigation hazardous. The photograph was apparently pasted into an album, probably one assembled between 1884 and 1891 to document lighthouses along the Maine coast. Later the island became associated with Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary, whose family summered there, which gives the station a second place in American history.
| Created / published | [between 1884 and 1891] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1900. |
| Subjects | In album formerly identified as vol. 6, p. [58]. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and from item. Caption card tracings: Lighthouses; Maine--Penobscot Bay; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,360 × 4,277 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif09046_EagleIslandLight4thorderPenobs |
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