The Montauk light – Vintage Print
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This historic image of The Montauk light brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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The Montauk light
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Few lighthouses on the East Coast have a longer record than the one at Montauk Point, where a stone tower has stood at the eastern tip of Long Island since the late 1790s. Washington's administration authorized it, and it was among the first lights the new federal government built to guide ships past the dangerous shoals along that coast. This illustration ran in the September 1871 issue of *Harper's New Monthly Magazine*, when readers were drawn to the rugged headlands and summer resorts of the Atlantic shore, and the tower would have been a familiar landmark to many of them.
| Created / published | 1871 |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Illus. in: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, v. 43, no. 256 (1871 September), p. 481. |
| Original scan | 1,563 × 2,735 px · prints to 5 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 35 |
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