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Craighill's channel range or leading lights, Chesapeake Bay--The high light – Vintage Print

Craighill's channel range or leading lights, Chesapeake Bay--The high light, 1873 — historic image
Craighill's channel range or leading lights, Chesapeake Bay--The high light, 1873. Historic image from the Lighthouses collection.

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Craighill's channel range or leading lights, Chesapeake Bay--The high light

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This plate shows the high light of the Craighill Channel range in Chesapeake Bay, one of the paired markers that guided ships through a dredged channel in the bay's shallow waters. Two lights were set one above and behind the other so that a navigator who kept them aligned stayed in the safe water. The image appeared in the 1873 Annual Report of the U.S. Light-House Board, a federal publication that documented the country's aids to navigation. It was reproduced by the American Photo-Relief Printing Company of Philadelphia, a firm that turned photographs into printing plates for official reports.

Created / published1873
SubjectsBelow print: Am. Photo-Relief, Printing Co., Phila. Illus. in: Annual Report of the U.S. Light-House Board, 1873, plate opposite p. 44.
Original scan2,192 × 1,361 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference41

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