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Reference (shelfmark):: 1730.c.5, 5(33)
Title:: Phare de Baleines. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: View of the impressive octagonal masonry tower of the lighthouse, built above a large accommodation block. This structure was built 1850-54. The top of the older lighthouse which it replaced can be seen in the background. The lighthouse is situated on the Pointe des Baleines, off the northern ti...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1730.c.5, 5(34)
Title:: Phare de La Rochelle et ponton de feu flottant. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: View looking towards the waterfront and the La Rochelle light, with the Rochebonne lightship moored at the quayside in front. The Rochebonne shallows are situated 33 miles west of the Île de Ré.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1730.c.5, 5(35)
Title:: Phare de Chassiron. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: View of the circular tower of the lighthouse, resting on wider drum, situated at the southern extremity of the Pertuis d'Antioche, off the northern tip of the Île d'Oléron. This light, superseding an older structure, was built in 1836.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1730.c.5, 5(36)
Title:: Phare de la Palmyre. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Close view of the iron lighthouse, with a narrow central tower containing the staircase and supporting frame in tripod form. The lighthouse was erected, at the mouth of the Gironde, in 1870. For another example of this design, seen plate 42.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1730.c.5, 5(37)
Title:: Phare de St-Pierre à Royan. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: View of the square-towered lighthouse, painted in horizontal bands of red and white, and surmounted by a pediment. The lighthouse, completed in 1873 to the north of Royan, acts in combination with the Chay light to guide shipping into the Gironde from the south.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1730.c.5, 5(38)
Title:: Phare du Chay à Royan. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: View of the square lighthouse, surmounted by a segmental pediment and situated to the west of Royan, was built in 1873 to act in combination with the St Pierre light (see preceding print). In the background to the right is the Royan light.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1730.c.5, 5(39)
Title:: Phare de St Georges. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: View of thesmall lighthouse near the small port of St Georges, above Royan, in operation from 1860.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1730.c.5, 5(40)
Title:: Phare de Cordouan. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: View at low water of the tapering tower of the Corduan lighthouse, which rises above a two-tiered drum embellished with classical motifs. A detailed history of the variousdesigns and modifications of this historic and celebrated lighthouse is given in the main body of the text (pp. 27-34).
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1730.c.5, 5(41)
Title:: Phare de la Pointe de Grave. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Close view of the stocky, square lighthouse tower marking the southern tip of the passage into the Gironde, which came into operation in 1860.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1730.c.5, 5(42)
Title:: Phare de Richard. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: View of the lighthouse, built in the tripod design also seen in plate 36. This iron structure, built in 1870, is another of the lighthouses assisting navigation into the Gironde.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

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