West Quoddy Head Light in Lubec, Maine, the easternmost point of the contiguous United States and the closest point to Europe from a point in the fifty States
Highsmith, Carol M.,
1946-
photographer
still image
graphic
government publication
Transparencies-Color-1980-2010.
xxu
1980
2006
monographic
[between 1980 and 2006]
eng
1 transparency : color ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.
No known restrictions on publication.
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer.
West Quoddy Head overlooks Quoddy Narrows, a strait between Canada and the United States. Since 1808, there has been a lighthouse there to guide ships through the waterway. The current one, with distinctive red-and-white stripes, was built in 1858. The 3rd order Fresnel lens is the only 3rd order and one of only eight Fresnel lenses still in use on the Maine Coast.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:124).
Forms part of the Selects Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
America
Lighthouses
West Quoddy Head Light
United States
Maine
Lubec
LC-HS503- 893
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.12154
Carol M. Highsmith Archive
(DLC) 00650024
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-
2011630351
LC-DIG-highsm-12154 DLC
LC-HS503-893 DLC
hdl:loc.pnp/highsm.12154
aacr
gihc
DLC
110810
20170608113745.0
16952208
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