Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, North Carolina, after 1870

postcard

Postcard; photolithograph; view of lighthouse at Cape Hatteras, NC; light at right; keeper's dwelling at left; cattle grazing in foreground; printed at lower left "Cape Hatteras Light, Seacoast of N.C."; printed on reverse "Cape Hatteras Light/ On Cape Hatteras, seacoast of North Carolina, about 3/4 mile/ to northward of the southerly point of the cape."; published by the Hugh C. Leighton Co. #28231; [Cape Hatteras light, present structure erected 1870, first-order lens, tallest light in US; ; keeper's dwelling now a museum; see F. Ross Holland Jr. "Great American Lighthouses" pp.178-180]