Whaleback Light
Kittery (Me.)
Piscataqua River (N.H. and Me.)
Historic buildings
Original graphite drawing overlaid in pen and ink and watercolor. Created for Pearson's publication of Vignettes of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Pearson, Helen (1870-1949)
The Helen Pearson Drawings
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
1913
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PPL-AA1993.4
Fort Point
New Castle (N.H.)
Fort Constitution (N.H.)
Historic buildings
Original graphite drawing overlaid in pen and ink with possible watercolor, featuring the Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse, also known as the Fort Point Lighthouse or the Fort Constitution Lighthouse. Created for Pearson's publication of Vignettes of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Pearson, Helen (1870-1949)
The Helen Pearson Drawings
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
1913
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PPL-AA1989.64
Whale Back Light - Portsmouth Three Hundredth Anniversary
Whale Back Light - Portsmouth Three Hundredth Anniversary Commemorative Postcard, Portsmouth, NH
Postcard image by Helen Pearson
Louis J. Mackles Collection
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Additional portions of the Louis J. Mackles Collection may be found at the Rye Historical Society, the New Castle Historical Society, the Portsmouth Navy Yard and a single private collector.
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Paper postcard
Volume 3, Portsmouth Bridge and Water Views #87-88
Whale Back Light
Whale Back Lighthouse, Portsmouth, NH
Harry Winebaum News Agency, Portsmouth, NH
Louis J. Mackles Collection
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Additional portions of the Louis J. Mackles Collection may be found at the Rye Historical Society, the New Castle Historical Society, the Portsmouth Navy Yard and a single private collector.
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Paper postcard
Volume3, Portsmouth Bridge and Water Views #85-86
Whale Back Light
Whale Back Lighthouse, Portsmouth, NH
Detroit Publishing Company
Louis J. Mackles Collection
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Additional portions of the Louis J. Mackles Collection may be found at the Rye Historical Society, the New Castle Historical Society, the Portsmouth Navy Yard and a single private collector.
JPG derived as TFF
Paper postcard
Volume 3, Portsmouth Bridge and Water Views #83-84
Whale Back Light
Whale Back Light, Portsmouth, NH
Louis J. Mackles Collection
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Additional portions of the Louis J. Mackles Collection may be found at the Rye Historical Society, the New Castle Historical Society, the Portsmouth Navy Yard and a single private collector.
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Paper postcard
Volume 3, Portsmouth Bridge and Water Views #81-82
Whale Back Light
Whale Back Light, Portsmouth NH
H.C. Leighton Co., Portland, ME
Louis J. Mackles Collection
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Additional portions of the Louis J. Mackles Collection may be found at the Rye Historical Society, the New Castle Historical Society, the Portsmouth Navy Yard and a single private collector.
JPG derived from TFF
Paper postcard
Volume 3, Portsmouth Bridge and Water Views #79-80
Whale Back Light
Whale Back Light, Portsmouth, NH
Harry Winebaum News Agency, Portsmouth, NH
Louis J. Mackles Collection
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Additional portions of the Louis J. Mackles Collection may be found at the Rye Historical Society, the New Castle Historical Society, the Portsmouth Navy Yard and a single private collector.
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Paper postcard
Volume 3, Portsmouth Bridge and Water Views #77-78
Whale Back Light
Whale Back Light, Portsmouth, NH
Robbins Bros., Boston, Mass.
Louis J. Mackles Collection
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Additional portions of the Louis J. Mackles Collection may be found at the Rye Historical Society, the New Castle Historical Society, the Portsmouth Navy Yard and a single private collector.
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Paper postcard
Volume 3, Portmsouth Bridge and Water Views #75-76
Lighthouse, New Castle, New Hampshire
New Castle (N.H.)
Lighthouses
Watercolors (paintings)
"Built by Gov. John Wentworth in 1771. As early as 1765, while Benning Wentworth was Governor, a petition was presented by sundry inhabitants of Portsmouth setting forth the necessity of a light-house at some suitable place near the mouth of Piscataqua Harbor. A committee was appointed to examine the matter, and a sum was appropriated for the erection of such a building, but being entirely insufficient, nothing more was done. In April 1771, Gov. John Wentworth made an earnest appeal to the Provincial Assembly to have enough appropriated to keep at least a lantern lighted at the head of the mast that supports the flagstaff in the Castle, or Fort, saying in the appeal: 'Every future expiring Cry of a drowning Mariner upon our coast, will bitterly accuse the unfeeling Recusant that wastes that Life to save a paltry unblessed Shilling.' A sum was accordingly granted; but in December of the same year, the governor announced that having found this mode of lighting impracticable, he had himself exceeded the grant, and caused the needed edifice to be erected. The debt thus incurred was paid the next year. In 1789 the light-house was ceded by the State to the United States. In 1854 it was remodeled and cut down, in order to distinguish it from the light-house on Whalesback."
Excerpted from The Portsmouth Guide Book, 1896, by Sarah Haven Foster.
Inscription reads, "Light House. N. Castle."
Foster, Sarah Haven (1827-1900)
Sarah Haven Foster Views of Portsmouth
Portsmouth Public Library, Special Collections
Mid to late 19th century
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PPL-AA1989.60.78