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Promoting Travelers Checks
This advertisement for Travelers Checks appeared in the February 1959 edition of National Geographic Magazine. It is interesting that an organization as big as the First National Bank of Chicago Travelers Checks didn’t use an actual image of the Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse.
Lady at Twin Lights
Shown here is an unknown lady, in an undated snapshot, standing in front of one of the twin lights at the Navesink Light Station in Highlands, New Jersey. Just think, if the family had written the name of the lady and the date that the photo had been taken, we might have been able to track down the family to find out more about her. More than likely, she was visiting the lighthouse on a family outing or vacation. We wonder what her hopes and dreams were. Did she have any children? Where was she from? What did she do for a living? What a shame that we will never know. In 1841, the Navesink Twin Lights were the first American lighthouses to use Fresnel lenses, the first to use kerosene as a fuel source, and among the first to be electrified. Today, it is the site of a first-class museum.
Cape Elizabeth on Down East
Maine’s Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse, reproduced from a 30” x 19½” acrylic on hardboard painting by Charles Selmi of North Conway, New Hampshire, appeared on the cover of the July 1977 edition of Down East, The Magazine of Maine. Known as the Two Lights Light Station in Cape Elizabeth, twin lighthouses were built here in 1828. The west tower was discontinued in 1924 and is now privately owned. The east lighthouse tower and the keeper’s house, shown here, were immortalized by artist Edward Hopper in several paintings, one of which appeared on a 1970 U.S. postage stamp. The lighthouse tower was licensed by the Coast Guard to the American Lighthouse Foundation in the spring of 2000, however the keeper’s house is privately owned. The active optic in the tower is still maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard.
Hendricks Head on Down East
Maine’s Hendricks Head Lighthouse, reproduced from a 22”x36” oil painting on canvas by Stephen Etnier of South Harpswell, Maine, appeared on the cover of the November 1977 edition of Down East, The Magazine of Maine. The lighthouse, which was established in 1829 and rebuilt in 1875, is at the westernmost point of Southport Island, on the east side of the entrance to the Sheepscot River. The author and naturalist Rachel Carson spent a dozen summers near here beginning in 1952, and her landmark book, The Edge of the Sea, was inspired by the location’s beauty and rich ecology. The lighthouse was deactivated in 1933, sold into private ownership, and remains so to this day.
Climbing the Tower
Shown here is Bob Hendricks, a full-time caretaker employed by the Greenwich Department of Parks and Recreation at Great Captain Island Lighthouse, off the coast of Greenwich, Connecticut, climbing the skeleton light tower on March 19, 1984. The 4th order Fresnel lens in the nearby 1867 lighthouse had been replaced by the skeletal beacon in 1970. This photo was part of a two-page article published in the Greenwich Times, recounting the experiences of Bob and his wife Helen during their six years at the lighthouse. Other photos that were published with the story show Bob and Helen on a tractor and setting out plywood boards for a liquid fuel delivery, but it is unclear why Bob is shown climbing the tower since the beacon at the top was the responsibility of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Over Montauk
On August 17, 2008, United States Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City lands at the Montauk Point Lighthouse in Montauk New York, for a static display and SAR demo. (US Coast Guard photo, Lighthouse Digest archives)
Out at Old Barney
Myron Krawchuk is seen celebrating his 65th birthday on October 9, 1996, on the Jersey Shore with Barnegat Lighthouse as the “candle on his cake.”
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