PC-002-392

Light house and oldest woman tender in the United States, near Santa Barbara, California

 

circa 1909

 

 

This is a "Cape Cod style" lighthouse, with a tower atop the roof of a one-story cottage, built in 1856. In front stands a woman wearing red and white, under a trellis and behind a fence covered in blossoms. Behind her is the Pacific Ocean to the horizon. This was the Santa Barbara Lighthouse, and the woman was Julia Williams, who kept the station from 1865 until 1905, when she fell and broke her hip. On the divided back, the publisher's number is 3682, and a number upside down in the stampbox s 43444, perhaps belonging to the printer in Germany.

Julia Williams; Santa Barbara Lighthouse; Lighthouses; Cape Cod style lighthouses

 

California - Santa Barbara

 

 

MS-0008

 

M. Rieder, Publisher, Los Angeles, California

Postcard

3.5 inches X 5.5 inches

No

 

 

 

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TIFF

19.87 MB