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Photographs of buildings and structures on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35
File
1917 - 1918

File contains photographs of lighthouses, wireless stations, and other out buildings on Sable Island as they appeared in 1917 and 1918.

Photograph of the Main Station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 7
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph showing six buildings on Sable Island, making up the Main Station on the island, ca. 1917.

Photograph of the wireless station on Sable Island before 1918 extension

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the Sable Island wireless station, prior to the expansion of the facility in 1918.

Photograph of the new west lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 10
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the new western lighthouse on Sable Island, taken shortly after the completion of construction, likely in early 1918.

Aerial photograph of the station building at the new west lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 11
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the station located at the new western lighthouse on Sable Island, taken from atop that lighthouse, likely in early 1918.

Photograph of a person standing in front of the Sable Island wireless station after construction of its extension

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 12
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a person wearing waterproof gear standing in front of the wireless station on Sable Island after the construction of the building's extension was completed in 1918.

Photograph of the old schoolhouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 14
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a building on Sable Island -- likely the old schoolhouse -- prior to its being overtaken by encroaching sand, probably taken in 1918.

Photograph of two unidentified people on horseback in front of the refuge house near the eastern lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 15
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of two unidentified people on horseback, in front of the refuge hut, described as being "east of east light" on Sable Island.

Photograph of the Main Station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of two buildings, including the Sable Island Main Station, taken ca. 1917.

Photograph of West Light, Sable Island, prior to its decommissioning

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 3
Item
1917

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken in 1917 of West Light on Sable Island, prior to its decommissioning at the end of 1917, The lighthouse was originally constructed in this form in 1888.

Photograph of Station Number 2 on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 4
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of two buildings on Sable Island inside a fenced enclosure -- presumed by Richard Orme Allen to be Station Number 2 -- taken likely in 1917.

Photograph of the Main Station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 6
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of two of the larger buildings in Sable Island's main station.

Photograph of the wireless station on Sable Island before its extension in 1918

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 8
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the primary wireless station on Sable Island prior to its expansion in 1918.

Photograph of three people examining sections for the stack of the new west lighthouse on Sable Island 1917-1918

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 9
Item
[1917 or 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of three unidentified people examining sections of the stack for use in the construction of the new western lighthouse on Sable Island, taken either late 1917 or early 1918.

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