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In 1915, a newspaper reported that James Langlois was honored by the United States Lighthouse Service through being placed in charge of the lighthouse exhibit at the World’s Fair in San Francisco. The Lighthouse Service Bulletin in June 1915 gave a list of items in the exhibit. You can clearly see many of these in the photo if you look closely: the 1855-1857 ten-pounder cannon from Point Bonita Light Station which was used as the first fog signal on the Pacific Coast; the 1841 first order lens from New Jersey’s Navesink Light Station, which was the first Fresnel lens used in the United States; the third order lens used at California’s Alcatraz Light Station in 1854, which was the first one on the Pacific Coast; lighthouse models of Tillamook, Spectacle Reef, Minot’s Ledge, Lake Huron and Fowey Rocks; the new parapet deck, watch room, and helical-bar lantern soon to be installed in the newly constructed Cape St. Elias station in Alaska; different styles of fog horns, lamp apparatus, and buoys. (Courtesy United States Lighthouse Society.)
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How the West Was Won
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