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| View Original: | Top of the Sabine Bank Lighthouse. All that remains of a metal, caisson-style lighthouse (not to be confused with the far taller Sabine Pass Lighthouse that stands in Louisiana waters) that guarded LCCN2014630852.tif.tiff (4912x7360) | |||
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| Keywords: Top of the Sabine Bank Lighthouse. All that remains of a metal, caisson-style lighthouse (not to be confused with the far taller Sabine Pass Lighthouse that stands in Louisiana waters) that guarded LCCN2014630852.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Due to its remote location keepers often spent weeks or months in the structure between breaks The light station served as a lookout post during World War II The light in the deteriorating little lightouse was extinguished in 2001 A year later its topmost 25 feet were removed to a park in tiny Sabine Pass Texas a community that had been the second-largest in Jefferson County until repeated hurricanes devastated the community ; Forms part of Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; DLC/PP-2014 054 ; Credit line The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2014 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2014630852 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/26600/26652a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 26652 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 26652 29 44 0853 0 N 93 53 6355 0 W alt 7_source exif_heading 242 84 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||