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Administrator [6]
Builder [12]
Caretakers [2]
Contractor [66]
Depot Personnel [654]
Depot Personnel of African descent [15]
Engineers [259]
Inspectors [363]
Inventors [11]
Lampist [6]
Lamplighter [6]
Light Keeper [22181]
Light Keeper Female [523]
Light Keeper of African descent [93]
Light Keeper and Lightship Personnel [170]
Light Keeper and Tender Personnel [54]
Light Keeper, Tender, and Lightship Personnel [26]
Lighthouse District Personnel [30]
Lighthouse Service [196]
Lightship Personnel [4208]
Lightship Personnel of African descent [42]
Manufacturer [6]
Other Lighthouse Personnel [417]
Relief Keeper [6]
Scientist [2]
Superintendents [192]
Tender or Utility Vessel Personnel [6872]
Tender Personnel of African descent [162]
U.S. Lighthouse Board [133]

Events

Fog Signals (general information) [933]
Holidays [227]
International Lighthouses or Services [3]
Lighthouse Superintendents [22]
Optics [1022]
WWI [16]
Lighthouse Inspectors [5]
Plans for Establishment of [1258]
Rescue [65]
WWII [45]
Gale or Hurricane [394]
Exposition [9]
Automation [142]
Buoys [214]
Civil War [22]
Construction [9562]
Accident [508]

Collections / Donors

American Lighthouse Foundation [69]
David Zapatka Collection [1267]
Donations of National Archives Miscellaneous Research [15]

Buffalo Lighthouse Association [2]

Huntington Lighthouse Preservation Society [1]

Tybee Island Historical Society [16]

Edward Rowe Snow Collection [318]
Great Lakes Lighthouse Keeper's Association [54]
Herb Entwistle Postcard Collection [2185]
Jeremy D'Entremont Collection [12069]
John Graham Collection [164]
Josh Liller Collection [11]
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum [33]
Kraig Anderson Inventory of Lighthouse Personnel [43227]
Library of Congress [1355]
Lighthouse Digest Collection [2]
National Archives [18889]

National Archives Cartographic & Architectural [376]

National Archives Clippings Files [1771]

National Archives Letters Sent Regarding the Light-House Service, 1792 - 1852 [33]

National Archives Photography [1132]

U.S. Lighthouse Service Bulletin [37]

National Park Service [577]

National Park Service Inventory [294]

Penobscot Marine Museum Collection [28]
Ralph Krugler collection [340]
Robert A. Knight Collection [65]
Robert Bachand Collection [12]
Society Archives [13638]

Data Created by Society [377]

THE KEEPER'S LOG [382]

Suffolk River Heritage Collection [90]
U.S. Coast Guard [248]
U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office [3809]

Caretakers

Samuel Adams, Jr.

Adams, Samuel Jr. Cartaker Milwaukee North Point.jpg

Type: Caretakers

Born:

1850

Died:

1930

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Russell Joel Norton

Russell Joel Norton

Type: Caretakers

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