Stone lighthouse on a breakwater with sailboat masts – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Stone lighthouse on a breakwater with sailboat masts. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Stone lighthouse on a breakwater with sailboat masts
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A stone lighthouse rises from the end of a breakwater, with the masts of sailboats crowding the harbor behind it. Breakwaters like this one were built to shelter anchorages from heavy swells, and the lighthouse at the end guided vessels safely past the rocks and shoals at the harbor mouth. The pairing of a solid masonry tower with working sailing craft is a reminder of how closely lighthouses, harbors and small-boat traffic depended on one another. Notice how the masts cluster in the middle distance, a visual record of the busy waterfront these lights were built to serve.
| Original scan | 5,295 × 4,064 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif09070_LighthouseinSanFranciscoCalifo |
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