Middle Bay or Mobile Bay Lighthouse, Mobile Bay, Alabama [graphic].
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- photographer.
still image
Digital photographs Color 2000-2010. gmgpc
2010.
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Due to high labor costs in the post-Civil-War South, the lighthouse was prefabricated in the North and then shipped to Mobile Point, where it arrived in 1885. The screwpile lighthouse consists of a wooden hexagonal dwelling with a roof that sloped upwards to a centrally located lantern room. The lighthouse is supported by seven legs-one in the middle, and a single leg extending from each corner of the superstructure.
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Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
George F. Landegger;
Forms part of: George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Middle Bay Lighthouse Lighthouses America
United States Alabama Mobile Bay.
Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.05517
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