Lighthouse Southwest Pass Mississippi Delta Louisiana

Construction site for a lighthouse at Southwest Pass in the Mississippi Delta, La.
Title: [Construction site for a lighthouse at Southwest Pass in the Mississippi Delta, La.]
Related Names:
United States. Light-House Board.
Date Created/Published: 1867-1871, bulk 1870.
Summary: Photographs probably document a U.S. Light-House Board project to build a lighthouse at the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi Delta. Includes views of the existing lighthouse and keeper's residence; the wharf; construction equipment; the railway built on the construction site; some views of workmen's quarters and offices; a telegraph office near the site. Also a soldier's grave stone on Stake Island; a view of Pilottown, La.
Notes:
Handwritten caption information and item numbers on stereograph mounts.
Lot title devised by Library staff.
Transfer; Manuscript Division (Papers of O.M. Poe); 1985 (DLC/PP-1985:644).
Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.
Subjects:
Lighthouses--Louisiana--Mississippi River Delta--1860-1870.
Civil engineering--Louisiana--Mississippi River Delta--1860-1870.
Albumen prints--1860-1870.
Progress photographs--1860-1870.
Stereographs--1860-1870.
Bookmark /00651884/
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