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Administrator [3]
Builder [10]
Caretakers [2]
Contractor [46]
Depot Personnel [653]
Depot Personnel African-American [15]
Engineers [257]
Inspectors [363]
Inventors [11]
Lampist [5]
Lamplighter [6]
Light Keeper [21972]
Light Keeper Female [518]
Light Keeper African-American [84]
Light Keeper and Lightship Personnel [151]
Light Keeper and Tender Personnel [48]
Light Keeper, Tender, and Lightship Personnel [24]
Lighthouse District Personnel [31]
Lighthouse Service [194]
Lightship Personnel [4225]
Lightship Personnel African-American [39]
Manufacturer [6]
Other Lighthouse Personnel [417]
Relief Keeper [6]
Scientist [2]
Superintendents [138]
Tender or Utility Vessel Personnel [6838]
Tender Personnel African-American [160]
U.S. Lighthouse Board [133]

Collections / Donors

American Lighthouse Foundation [75]
David Zapatka Collection [1255]
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 [264]
Great Lakes Lighthouse Keeper's Association [55]
Herb Entwistle Postcard Collection [2185]
Jeremy D'Entremont Collection [9740]
John Graham Collection [166]
Josh Liller Collection [10]
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum [30]
Kraig Anderson Inventory of Lighthouse Personnel [39833]
Library of Congress [1357]
Lighthouse Digest Collection [2]
National Archives [18332]

National Archives Cartographic & Architectural [371]

National Archives Clippings Files [1713]

National Archives Letters Sent Regarding the Light-House Service, 1792 - 1852 [31]

National Archives Photography [1161]

U.S. Lighthouse Service Bulletin [37]

National Park Service [577]

National Park Service Inventory [298]

Penobscot Marine Museum Collection [26]
Ralph Krugler collection [93]
Robert A. Knight Collection [67]
Robert Bachand Collection [11]
Society Archives [13686]

Data Created by Society [379]

THE KEEPER'S LOG [382]

Suffolk River Heritage Collection [89]
U.S. Coast Guard [241]
U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office [3825]

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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