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NOAA Photo Library Image - line2471

The Tallest Lighthouse Tower of this Country, 193 Feet High; The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, North Carolina. The spiral painting is to furnish a distinctive day mark to mariners. In: "Lighthouses and Lightships of the United States" by George R. Putnam, p. 93, 1917. Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston. Library Call No. 527.7 P98.

Image ID: line2471, NOAA's America's Coastlines Collection
Location: North Carolina, Cape Hatteras
Photographer: Archival Photo by Mr. Steve Nicklas, NOS/NGS/RSD


Category: Coastline/Southeast North Carolina/Lighthouses Historic/

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