Minot's Ledge Light, Cohasset, Massachusetts

platinum print

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USA, MA, Cohasset; USA, MA, Boston Harbor
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9-1/2 x 6-1/8 in.

Platinum print; Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, Cohasset, Massachusetts (1860 structure); original openwork iron structure built 1847, 75 feet high, collapsed in storm 1851, replaced by lightship 1851-1860, work begun on new tower 1855, destroyed in storm 1857, work begun again 1857, finished 1860, 97 feet high, 85 feet above water, automated and unmanned 1947.


1962.1356

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