Lighthouses travelling libraries

“Lighthouses were often time located in remote areas and as such had no access to city services such as libraries, opera houses, entertainment, etc. As light keeping was a lonely profession in most cases supplies were brought to them by lighthouse tender ships. One of the items the tender supplied was a library box, filled with books and switched from station to station to supply different reading materials to the families…”

Discover what was inside this smart portable library at the end of 1800 and read the complete story here. I wander if light keepers had ever have the inspiration to draw from up there, I enjoyed so much sketching from Point Arena lighthouse last summer.

A map of United States Lighthouses here.