Southeast Lighthouse, Block Island, Rhode Island, after 1872

postcard

Postcard, photolithograph; view of South Lighthouse, Block Island, RI; white picket fence surrounds light which is attached to dwelling; printed at lower left "Block Island RI South Lighthouse"; upper left corner of card is damaged by insects; printed by the Hugh C. Leighton Co. #1259; [Block Island Southeast Light, built 1873, automated, the highest above-water light in New England, moved back from bluff in 1993, see Wally Welch "Lighthouses of Rhode Island" pages 32-33]