Posts Tagged:Montauk Point

Throwback Thursday – The Pelican

The Pelican, photographed by Evangeline Pitts, 1951 Damaged open party boat Pelican sits behind clammer Ben Pitts, Pitts-Burke-Cullum Collection, Montauk Library Archives The man clamming in the foreground of this photograph was known as Augustus Petitpas in his native Nova Scotia, and as Ben Pitts in the United States. The beached boat listing behind him… Read more »

Throwback Thursday- The Lighthouse

The Montauk Lighthouse structure as we know it today received its daymark, or dark red horizontal band, in 1899.  It was done to help sea captains distinguish which lighthouse they were looking at during daylight.  A lighthouse at night, with its steady or blinking flash, dispersed location information to the sea traveler, but during the… Read more »

Throwback Thursday- Lathrop Brown Windmill House Postcard

Hand-coloring was often employed on vintage postcards, done by the manufacturer during production.  Like most early postcards, this particular view was originally transferred from a B & W photograph.  However, since postcard buyers would almost always purchase the brighter image, as early as 1902 collotype-printed postcards in B & W would gain a painterly flourish. … Read more »