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Administrator [2]
Builder [5]
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Contractor [27]
Depot Personnel [649]
Depot Personnel African-American [15]
Engineers [254]
Inspectors [357]
Inventors [11]
Lampist [5]
Lamplighter [5]
Light Keeper [21780]
Light Keeper Female [514]
Light Keeper African-American [83]
Light Keeper and Lightship Personnel [136]
Light Keeper and Tender Personnel [40]
Light Keeper, Tender, and Lightship Personnel [20]
Lighthouse District Personnel [30]
Lighthouse Service [194]
Lightship Personnel [4181]
Lightship Personnel African-American [39]
Manufacturer [6]
Other Lighthouse Personnel [414]
Relief Keeper [7]
Scientist [2]
Superintendents [125]
Tender or Utility Vessel Personnel [6840]
Tender Personnel African-American [160]
U.S. Lighthouse Board [133]

Collections / Donors

American Lighthouse Foundation [78]
David Zapatka Collection [1198]
Donations of National Archives Miscellaneous Research [16]

Buffalo Lighthouse Association [6]

Huntington Lighthouse Preservation Society [1]

Tybee Island Historical Society [16]

Edward Rowe Snow Collection [226]
Great Lakes Lighthouse Keeper's Association [55]
Herb Entwistle Postcard Collection [2197]
Jeremy D'Entremont Collection [6278]
John Graham Collection [167]
Josh Liller Collection [11]
Kraig Anderson Inventory of Lighthouse Personnel [36191]
Library of Congress [1365]
Lighthouse Digest Collection [1]
National Archives [18307]

National Archives Cartographic & Architectural [377]

National Archives Clippings Files [1714]

National Archives Keeper Registers 1848 - 1912 [1]

National Archives Letters Sent Regarding the Light-House Service, 1792 - 1852 [2]

National Archives Photography [1191]

National Park Service [577]

National Park Service Inventory [299]

Penobscot Marine Museum Collection [30]
Robert A. Knight Collection [67]
Robert Bachand Collection [12]
Society Archives [13737]

Data Created by Society [380]

THE KEEPER'S LOG [382]

Suffolk River Heritage Collection [89]
U.S. Coast Guard [242]
U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office [3851]
U.S. Lighthouse Service Bulletin [7]

Scientist

Sir David Brewster

Sir David Brewster

Type: Scientist

Born:

1781

Died:

1868

Read more about Sir David Brewster

Georges L. Buffon

Buffon

Type: Scientist

Born:

1707

Died:

1788

Read more about Georges L. Buffon

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