Sandy Hook Point Light, New Jersey, north entrance to Sandy Hook Bay

photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
USA, NJ, Sandy Hook
1880-1921
paper
H. 7-1/8 in.; bottom 9-3/8 in.; top 4-1/4 in.; side 9-3/4 in.

Photograph, irregular shape with glued-on paper frame on 2 sides (glue no longer sticks); Sandy Hook Point Light, north entrance to Sandy Hook Bay, New Jersey; handwritten in pen lower frame with gap in center, "Sandy Hook North N.J. -- Rebuilt 1880." Handwritten in pencil upper left corner "4". In 1921, the 1880 cast iron lighthouse was moved to New York City and became Jeffrey's Hook Light, also known as the "Little Red Lighthouse."


1964.881.21

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