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Charleston Light tower, Sullivan's Island, black and white photograph – Vintage Wall Art

Charleston Light tower, Sullivan's Island, black and white photograph — historic photograph
Charleston Light tower, Sullivan's Island, black and white photograph. Historic photograph 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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A window into the past: Charleston Light tower, Sullivan's Island, black and white photograph, preserved in this historic photograph. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Charleston Light tower, Sullivan's Island, black and white photograph

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The Charleston Light stands on Sullivan's Island, at the entrance to Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, and it has guided ships into that channel for well over a century. The tower was completed in 1962 and is the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States, a fact that gives its slender silhouette a particular presence in a black and white view. Its predecessors on the island were lost to storms and shifting sand, which makes the current structure a useful reminder of how hard it has been to keep navigational lights standing on this low, exposed coast.

Original scan4,902 × 5,985 px · prints to 16 × 20 in at 300 dpi
Referencetif09102_CharlestonLightSullivansIsland

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