File:Minot's Light, Massachusetts Bay (64465).jpg

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English: Title: Minot's Light, Massachusetts Bay
Description: Minot's Light. The most famous of all New England lighthouses, located one and half miles from shore, required over five years to build. The tower is of granite blocks rising to a height of 88 feet, and the lower half is solid all through. Above the solid portion are the apartments of five rooms, one above the other, and above all, the revolving light. The present structure was completed in 1860.
Subjects: Lighthouses; Minot's Ledge Lighthouse (Mass.)
Places: Massachusetts > Massachusetts Bay
Notes: Title from item.
Extent: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
Accession #: 06_10_000863
Date between circa 1930 and circa 1945
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1945-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Boston Public Library Tichnor Brothers collection #64465
Author Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass.

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