Cape Lookout lighthouse with black and white diamond pattern, hand-colored photograph – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Cape Lookout lighthouse with black and white diamond pattern, hand-colored photograph comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Cape Lookout lighthouse with black and white diamond pattern, hand-colored photograph
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The black and white diamond pattern is what sets this Cape Lookout lighthouse apart from the plain brick towers that usually fill a lighthouse series. Cape Lookout, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, was built in 1859 and painted in its distinctive daymark so that mariners could tell it from neighboring towers along the coast. Hand coloring, which was applied over a photographic print, adds a layer of human touch to what was originally a documentary image of a working navigational aid. The diamond pattern remains one of the most recognizable features of the tower and is worth noticing for how it turned a functional structure into a landmark.
| Original scan | 4,574 × 5,606 px · prints to 15 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif09040_CapeLookoutlightnearBeaufortNo |
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