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Volunteer turning S.H. [i.e. Sandy Hook] Lightship, Sept. 27, 1887 – Historic Print

Volunteer turning S.H. [i.e. Sandy Hook] Lightship, Sept. 27, 1887, [between 1887 and 1900] — historic photograph
Volunteer turning S.H. [i.e. Sandy Hook] Lightship, Sept. 27, 1887, [between 1887 and 1900]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(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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Volunteer turning S.H. [i.e. Sandy Hook] Lightship, Sept. 27, 1887 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Volunteer turning S.H. [i.e. Sandy Hook] Lightship, Sept. 27, 1887

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Few vessels on the Atlantic coast mattered more to arriving ships than the Sandy Hook lightship, which was moored off the New Jersey shore to mark the approach to New York harbor. Lightships served where a fixed lighthouse could not be built on shifting sandbars, so their crews kept the light burning and the hull on station. The title names a volunteer at work on the vessel, but the record does not say what he was turning, so the scene is best read as ordinary deck work. The large glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers recorded American ports, waterfronts and landmarks in the years around 1900.

Created / published[between 1887 and 1900]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
NotesPhotograph of photographic print marked copyright 1887
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-65012

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