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For educational purposes, we’re providing links and downloaded documents of a historic nature about lighthouses. Hats off to ForgottenBooks.org for making many of these available. There are no copyright restrictions.

US Lighthouse Service, Lifesaving Service and Coast Guard manuals

The Light Keepers: A Story of the United States Light-House Service, by James Otis, E. P. Dutton, 1906. Download: The_Light_Keepers

Medical Handbook for the Use of the Revenue-Cutter Service, U.S. Bureau of Light-Houses, Government Printing Office, 1912. Download: Medical_Handbook_for_the_Use_of_the_Revenue-Cutter_Service

Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick and Injured: Medical Handbook for the Use of Lighthouse Vessels and Stations, U.S. Bureau of Light-Houses, Government Printing Office, 1915. Download:Prevention_of_Disease_and_Care_of_the_Sick_and_Injured

Modern Light-House Service, by Arnold Burges Johnson, Chief Clerk, United States Light-House Board. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. Download: The_Modern_Light-House_Service

Lighthouses

Lighthouse Construction and Illumination, by Thomas Stevenson, 1881. Download: Lighthouse_Construction_and_Illumination

Lighthouses and Lightships: A Descriptive Account of their Mode of Construction, by W. A Davenport Adams, 1871. Lighthouses_and_Lightships_of_the_United_States Lighthouses_and_Lightships_Construction

Lighthouses and Lightships of the United States, by George Rockwell Putnam, 1917. Download: Lighthouses_and_Lightships_of_the_United_States

The Story of Our Lighthouses and Lightships: Descriptive and Historical, by W. A. Davenport Adams, 1891. Download: The_Story_of_Our_Lighthouses_and_Lightships

Lighthouses: Their History, by W. J. Hardy, 1895. Download: Lighthouses

Boston Harbor

Illustrated history of Boston Harbor, by James Henry Stark. Download: Illustrated_History_of_Boston_Harbor

The Story of Boston Light, With Some Account of the Beacons in Boston Harbor, by Fitz-Henry Smith Jr. Boston: 1911. Download: The_Story_of_Boston_Light