File:DETAIL VIEW LOOKING EAST, SHOWING LIGHT TOWER AND LANTERN - Faro de las Cabezas de San Juan, Cabezas de San Juan, Las Croabas, Fajardo Municipio, PR HAER PR,35-CABEZ,1-13.tif

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DETAIL VIEW LOOKING EAST, SHOWING LIGHT TOWER AND LANTERN - Faro de las Cabezas de San Juan, Cabezas de San Juan, Las Croabas, Fajardo Municipio, PR
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DETAIL VIEW LOOKING EAST, SHOWING LIGHT TOWER AND LANTERN - Faro de las Cabezas de San Juan, Cabezas de San Juan, Las Croabas, Fajardo Municipio, PR
Description
U.S. Department of Commerce; Central Lightouse Commission; Sautter, Lemonnier, and Cie; Barbier and Bernard; Reiver and Cie; Cary, Brian, transmitter; Murphy, Kevin, transmitter; Morales, Luis, photographer; Boucher, Jack, photographer; Nistal-Moret, Benjamin, historian
Depicted place Puerto Rico; Fajardo Municipio; Las Croabas
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PR,35-CABEZ,1-13
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: In 1782, one hundred years before the final construction of Cabo San Juan Lighthouse, Fray Inigo Abbad y Lasierra, who wrote the first formal history of Puerto Rico stated that: "The mountain peaks of Loquillo and Laivonito ... can be seen from a far off distance in the sea, and through them sailors recognize Cabezas de San Juan, the reference point of those who regularly navigate by these islands [to direct heir course] towards the Honduras and Mexico Gulf."
  • Survey number: HAER PR-18
  • Building/structure dates: 1881-1882 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1900 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1932 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1940-1950 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pr0040.photos.143196p
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Object location18° 22′ 00.01″ N, 65° 37′ 35″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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