Minot's Ledge Light House with Comparative Sections of Other Sea Rock Light Houses – Historic Reproduction
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This rare historic image captures Minot's Ledge Light House with Comparative Sections of Other Sea Rock Light Houses in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Minot's Ledge Light House with Comparative Sections of Other Sea Rock Light Houses
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Minot's Ledge Light stands on a submerged granite reef about two and a half miles off Cohasset, Massachusetts, at the approach to Boston Harbor. Its early history is marked by disaster: the first light built on the ledge was destroyed in a storm in 1851, and the tower shown here was built in its place to withstand the surf that had defeated the earlier structure. This sheet pairs the lighthouse with section drawings of other offshore towers built on rock, so viewers can compare how engineers shaped stone and iron to meet the same problem of open water and violent seas.
| Original scan | 3,920 × 2,846 px · prints to 13 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif09362_MinotsLedgelighthousewithcompa |
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