Lattice-tower lighthouse with keepers' houses, sepia photograph – Historic Photograph Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Lattice-tower lighthouse with keepers' houses, sepia photograph in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Lattice-tower lighthouse with keepers' houses, sepia photograph
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Few lighthouses from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were built as open lattice towers, which is what sets this one apart from the stone and brick towers most people picture. Lattice towers were cheaper to ship and assemble, and they let wind pass through the frame, so they suited exposed shorelines and sites where a solid tower would have been costly to raise. Here the tower stands beside the keepers' houses, the cluster of dwellings that kept the light running around the clock. The sepia tone of the print points to the photographic processes of its era, when such views were often made to document new government and maritime works.
| Original scan | 5,844 × 4,688 px · prints to 19 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif09086_USlighthouseatFreeportTexas |
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