Series IV: Light Station Equipment
Scope and Contents note
Series IV dates from ca. 1873-1927 and consists of photographs of a variety of types of equipment along with associated equipment tests and exhibitions. The photographs are arranged by type of equipment or related subject into six subseries: Audible Alerts, Engines and Air Compressors, Equipment Tests, Lenses and Lighthouse Apparatus, Lighthouse Equipment Exhibition Displays, and Unidentified and Miscellaneous Equipment.
Audible Alerts consists primarily of photographs of fog signals. One series of fifteen photographs documents the construction of the fog signal structure and installation of equipment by Hamilton-Foster Fog Signal Co., at Falkner's Island (Faulkner's Island), Connecticut. Four details of fog bell apparatus for the Minots Ledge Light Station in Massachusetts are included.
Engines and Air Compressors consists of a group of photographs by Underhill of Meitz and Weiss oil engine air compressors as installed in various engine rooms. Also included in this series are photographs of unidentified engine rooms, one of which is in Detroit, Michigan.
Equipment Tests show details of various equipment tests, including rust tests on steel and iron, tests of centrifugal pumps, and a few tests of machinery under icy conditions.
Lenses and Lighthouse Apparatus consists of photographs and halftone tear-sheets of lenses and lanterns made by Barbier, Benard & Turenne Manufacturers (Paris, France), Chance Brothers and Co. (London, England), and by unidentified manufacturers. Locations of installed lenses and lanterns have been listed in the finding aid.
Lighthouse Equipment Exhibition Displays includes photographs of equipment displays at various international exhibitions. Also included is a 1927 typescript letter from the acting Commissioner of Lighthouses to the Department of Commerce regarding lighthouse exhibition photographs from the Sesqui-Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1926.
Audible Alerts
Bialy, John A. - Fog bell for Minots Ledge Light, Massachusetts (4 items, elevations and cross sections), undated
Daboll - Rotating fog apparatus, undated
Hamilton-Foster Fog Signal Co. - Construction of fog signal at Falkner's (Faulkner's) Island, Connecticut (16 items), undated
New England Gamewell Co. - Fog bell machine, [1897], inclusive
Stevens, George M. (Boston) - Improved fog bell machine, 1897 Mar. 9
Unidentified manufacturer -- Whistle reflector, [1896], inclusive
Engines and Air Compressors
Meitz and Weiss Oil Engine Air Compressor Series, Boston, (by Underhill, New York) -- Engine room interiors (B22901- 2 copies, B22902, B22645), 1915, inclusive
Meitz and Weiss Oil Engine Air Compressor Series, Boston, (by Underhill, New York) -- Close up of engine components (B22394, B22395, no number), 1915, inclusive
Unidentified Manufacturers -- Engine room interior, Detroit, Michigan, [1873], inclusive
Unidentified Manufacturers -- Engine room interiors (3 items), undated
Equipment Tests
A.G.A. Flashing & Reducing Chamber filled with ice, 1914, inclusive
A.G.A. Reconstructed Flasher operating while frozen, 1915, inclusive
Centrifugal pump testing (2 items), 1922, inclusive
Ingot iron and steel rust tests (inscribed as: steel scaled, ingot iron scaled, ingot iron not scaled), [1915], inclusive
Valve pressure testing series (4 items), [1897], inclusive
Lenses and Lighthouse Apparatus
Barbier, Benard & Turenne Manufacturers (Paris, France) -- Cape Hinchinbrook, Alaska - Third order lightning light, 1906, inclusive
Barbier, Benard & Turenne Manufacturers (Paris, France) -- Hillsboro Inlet, Florida - Second order bivalve lightning light, 1906, inclusive
Barbier, Benard & Turenne Manufacturers (Paris, France) -- Liston Range Rear, Delaware - Range light, 1906, inclusive
Barbier, Benard & Turenne Manufacturers (Paris, France) -- Mexican Government - Fourth order lenses (half tone tear sheet) (2 copies), [1890], inclusive
Barbier, Benard & Turenne Manufacturers (Paris, France) -- Point Arena, California - First order lightning light apparatus, 1906, inclusive
Barbier, Benard & Turenne Manufacturers (Paris, France) -- Unidentified (half tone tear sheet), [1890], inclusive
General note
See also: Box 7, Folder 68