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Original mimeographed press releases issued by the United States Lighthouse Service from 1930 to 1939 that someone had professionally bound in a hard cover book and embossed in gold on the spine, “ Lighthouse Miscellaney U.S. Lighthouse Service, Vol. 1, 1930-1939. ” The collection was apparently owned at one time by William Wilkinson of New York City and he dated it when he received it on May 27, 1959. However, it is been in my possession for nearly 25 years since I purchased it at an auction. This is the real thing. All of the original mimeographed press releases have two holes punched in the top where they were most likely kept for the files of the United States Lighthouse Service as copies of the press releases they sent out. They were probably discarded at some point after 1939 when the Coast Guard took over the United States Lighthouse Service, whose official name was U.S. Bureau of Lighthouses. They are packed with historical information with the first press release being dated April 12, 1930 and the last one being dated April 24, 1939. The last two are not dated. One of those is about North African lighthouses that are being modernized by several nations and the other undated one is about Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. The Cape Hatteras press release talks about the erosion and says if the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse should collapse into the sea it would be replaced by other aids that would be much less expensive to maintain. Some of the more interesting press releases deal with such things as the Lighthouse Tender Iris rescuing people from a burning yacht, the Lighthouse Service lays keel to first diesel electric tender, lighthouse inspectors visit the Tender Violet, the building of a new Lighthouse Depot in South Portland, the fog problem at Moosepeak Lighthouse in Maine, the abandoning of Cape Hinchinbrook Lighthouse in Alaska and plans to build a new structure, a new beacon lighted at Billingsgate, Massachusetts at the site of a lost lighthouse, the dismantling of DeTour Reef Lighthouse, the completion of the new DeTour Reef Lighthouse, Commissioning of the Anacapa Lighthouse, Wood Island Lighthouse in Maine getting a new lens, gallantry at Passage Island Lighthouse, Enlarging the Lighthouse Depot in Buffalo, NY, the retiring of E.C. Gillette, Chief of Marine Engineering of Lighthouse Service and the retirement of George Putnam, the first Commissioner of the Bureau of Lighthouses. There are more, too many to mention. It is doubtful that there are too many original copies, if any, like this available anywhere. This is the real thing, a true part of America ’s lighthouse and maritime history that you can hold in your hands. These are the original papers once held in the hands of the people who worked for the U.S. Lighthouse Service in Washington D.C. Perhaps George Putnam, the first lighthouse Commissioner once held them. However, it is more likely that they were handled by C. J. Ludwig, Jr, Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Lighthouses, which was more commonly known as the U.S. Lighthouse Service.
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