Digest>Sep/Oct 2021

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According to the Annual Report of the Light-House Board, the indoor exhibit at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago contained “lenses, burners and their accessories, the tools used by light-house keepers, the appurtenances of light-houses, the models of light-houses and light-vessels, post lights, gas buoys, whistling buoys, etc., paintings and photographs representing typical light-houses and light-vessels, reports of and to the Light-House Board, and plans and specifications of various light-house structures.” (National Archives)
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Frederick Goes to the Fair
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