Pacific Grove Museum Archives: Welcome to the Point Pinos Lighthouse Webpages

POINT PINOS LIGHTHOUSE

19th- & 20th-Century Exteriors | Interiors
Lens & Machinery | Lightkeepers & Other People
Outbuildings: Coast Guard Houses & Lookout
Aerial Views | Maps & Prints | Shipwrecks

Welcome to the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History's Point Pinos Lighthouse archival images webpages.

An online exhibit using some of the images in the Museum's Lighthouse collection is now available. This exhibit, Pacific Grove: The Chautauqua Years was at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History from June - October 2005. To visit the exhibit, click here.

A chicken crosses a pathway leading to the
Point Pinos Lighthouse, located in Pacific Grove,
at the northern tip of the Monterey Peninsula.
c. 1910, detail from #38.2-838-BL.

The collection is comprised of more than 125 images of the Point Pinos Lighthouse, including the Lighthouse itself, its lens & machinery, outbuildings, grounds, lightkeepers & other people, maps & prints, ships, and local shipwrecks.

The images were created by a variety of photographers and cartographers, and were produced in the 19th & 20th centuries.

The images have been scanned from photographs in the Museum's collection. In addition to these webpages, working sets of prints are organized in loose-leaf binders and are available to the public at the reference desk at the Pacific Grove Public Library and by appointment at the Museum.

For more information on the Point Pinos Lighthouse, please visit the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History's Point Pinos Lighthouse webpage.

Information in the annotations to the Lighthouse and Ships & Shipwrecks images on these webpages are derived from a number of sources, including information in the Museum's archives, David Shonman & Pat Hathaway's diagnostic phases of the Lighthouse, Jerry McCaffery's book, Lighthouse: Point Pinos, Pacific Grove, California (Self-published, 2001), information gathered by Lighthoouse Coordinator Nancy McDowell, and Randall A. Reinstedt's Shipwrecks and Sea Monsters of California's Central Coast (Ghost Town Publications, 1975).

High-quality reproductions of most of these images are available for purchase. To order images, please visit the Use and Reproduction page of this site for prices and order form.

If you are interested in reproducing images from the Museum's collections in a publication, please refer to the Use and Reproduction page for fee schedule, permission, and conditions of use information.

Reproduction of these images on other websites is prohibited without express permission.

Page created July 19, 2005. Last updated September 8, 2005.
Page copyright 2005 by the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History.

Welcome to the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History's Point Pinos Lighthouse archival images webpages.

An online exhibit using some of the images in the Museum's Lighthouse collection is now available. This exhibit, Pacific Grove: The Chautauqua Years was at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History from June - October 2005. To visit the exhibit, click here.

A chicken crosses a pathway leading to the Point Pinos Lighthouse, located in Pacific Grove, at the northern tip of the Monterey Peninsula. c. 1910, detail from #38.2-838-BL.		The collection is comprised of more than 125 images of the Point Pinos Lighthouse, including the Lighthouse itself, its lens & machinery, outbuildings, grounds, lightkeepers & other people, maps & prints, ships, and local shipwrecks. The images were created by a variety of photographers and cartographers, and were produced in the 19th & 20th centuries. The images have been scanned from photographs in the Museum's collection. In addition to these webpages, working sets of prints are organized in loose-leaf binders and are available to the public at the reference desk at the Pacific Grove Public Library and by appointment at the Museum. For more information on the Point Pinos Lighthouse, please visit the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History's Point Pinos Lighthouse webpage.



Information in the annotations to the Lighthouse and Ships & Shipwrecks images on these webpages are derived from a number of sources, including information in the Museum's archives, David Shonman & Pat Hathaway's diagnostic phases of the Lighthouse, Jerry McCaffery's book, Lighthouse: Point Pinos, Pacific Grove, California (Self-published, 2001), information gathered by Lighthoouse Coordinator Nancy McDowell, and Randall A. Reinstedt's Shipwrecks and Sea Monsters of California's Central Coast (Ghost Town Publications, 1975).

High-quality reproductions of most of these images are available for purchase. To order images, please visit the Use and Reproduction page of this site for prices and order form. If you are interested in reproducing images from the Museum's collections in a publication, please refer to the Use and Reproduction page for fee schedule, permission, and conditions of use information. Reproduction of these images on other websites is prohibited without express permission.