The Fog Bell, with a bearded man in cap – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: The Fog Bell, with a bearded man in cap, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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The Fog Bell, with a bearded man in cap
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A fog bell and a bearded man in a cap anchor this picture, and the bell is the key to its subject: a warning built for weather when no light could be seen past the shore. Before radio and radar, fog bells were among the most important safety signals on the coast. Keepers or their assistants struck them by hand or by weight-driven mechanisms, and the steady strokes carried over water to help ships keep clear of rocks. The man beside the bell suggests the daily, often unglamorous work that kept these signals sounding through long nights of fog.
| Original scan | 1,446 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g02937_ |
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