Boston Light, Boston, Massachusetts

postcard

POSTCARDS
Souvenir Postcard Co.
USA, MA, Boston Harbor
paper
5-1/2 x 3-1/2 in.

Postcard, photolithograph; view taken from foreground rocks; Boston MA; light visible at left background; covered walkway and keeper's quarters at left; unidentified gaff-rigged sloops at right; printed along bottom margin "2894-Boston Light, Boston MA/ Printed in Germany"; printed on reverse "SOUVENIR POST CARD CO., NEW YORK AND BERLIN"; [Boston Harbor Lighthouse, site of the oldest lighthouse in US; built 1716, burned by British and rebuilt 1783; updated in 1870's, last staffed light in country, slated for automation in 1989; see F. Ross Holland Jr, "Great American Lighthouses" pages 98-100]

UNIDENTIFIED sloop
1994.37.78