Black and white striped lighthouse with dunes and houses – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Black and white striped lighthouse with dunes and houses in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Black and white striped lighthouse with dunes and houses
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Few lighthouses announce themselves quite like this one, with its bold black and white bands rising above a scatter of low dunes and modest houses. The stripes were a daymark, a pattern painted so that mariners could tell one tower from another in daylight and fix their position along a featureless coast. Striped towers like this were common on sandy shores where the land itself offered few landmarks, and the houses clustered nearby would have housed the keeper and his family. Look closely at the contrast between the sharp painted bands and the soft, wind-shaped dunes, which shows how the tower served as both a navigational aid and a civic marker on the landscape.
| Original scan | 4,433 × 5,762 px · prints to 15 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif09080_CapeHenryLighthouseatVirginiaB |
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