Boston lightship, Boston, Mass. – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Boston lightship, Boston, Mass. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Boston lightship, Boston, Mass.
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Moored at sea rather than built on land, this lightship marked the approaches to Boston for vessels coming in from the Atlantic. Lightships like it stood in for lighthouses where the water was too deep or the bottom too shifting for a masonry tower, and their crews lived aboard for long stretches while tending a lamp and fog signal. The Detroit Publishing Co., which issued a large catalog of American views in the early twentieth century, copyrighted this c1906 photograph, and it records a working piece of the harbor's navigation at a time when steam and sail still shared these waters.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H72366 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 022216. Photograph copyrighted by the Detroit Publishing Co. Title from item. |
| Subjects | Lightships--Massachusetts--Boston--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,213 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-145439 |
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