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Primary Sources and Picture Books: Kate's Light: Kate Walker at Robbins Reef Lighthouse by Elizabeth Spires and Emily Arnold McCully

Pilot boats in New York harbor

Teaching Notes

While the lighthouse is extremely difficult to see, the boats give a good reference to those ships that may have been seen at the lighthouse by Kate Walker.

Now vacant Robbin's Reef or Kate's Light sitting majestically in New Jersey waters in New York harbor / World-Telegram photo by Dick De Marsico.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2005692545/

Reference note

Contributor Names: De Marsico, Dick, photographer
Created / Published: 1945 December 5.
Subject Headings: -  Lighthouses--New Jersey--1940-1950
Notes: -  Title devised by Library staff.
-  NYWT&S staff photograph.
-  Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: ppmsca 09094 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.09094

Ralph Rexinger, and Joaquim H. Brits starting to eat while Olaf Andersen cooking at stove / World Telegram photo by Dick De Marsico.

Teaching Notes

See illustration on page 13

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2005692541/

Reference note

Contributor Names: De Marsico, Dick, photographer
Created / Published: 1945 November 1.
Subject Headings: -  Andersen, Olaf
-  Brits, Joaquim H
-  Rexinger, Ralph
-  Lighthouses--New Jersey--1940-1950
Notes: -  Title from item.
-  NYWT&S staff photograph.
-  Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: ppmsca 09095 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.09095

The Sun, December 21, 1902, Second Section, Page 6, Image 20

The Sun, May 26, 1918, Section 5 Magazine Section, Page 6, Image 46

Robbins Reef Lighthouse

Perpendicular Section/Foundation

Plans Of Stone Courses

Elevation/Plan (Color)

[New Jersey] MPS Robbins Reef Light Station

The Port of New York--Birds eye view from the Battery, looking south

Teaching Notes

Endpaper image

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/91482228/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Currier & Ives.
Created / Published: New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1892.
Subject Headings: -  New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)--1890-1900
-  Battery Park (New York, N.Y.)--1890-1900
-  New York (N.Y.)--1890-1900
Genre: Bird's-eye view prints--1890-1900
Lithographs--Color--1890-1900
Notes: -  Copyright 1892 by Currier & Ives, N.Y.
-  Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5259.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: pga 00863 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.00863
cph 3b48554 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48554
cph 3g01770 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g01770
cph 3a08946 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a08946