Former Location |
Current Location |
Type of Lens/Lamp |
Manufacturer/ Country of Origin |
Approximate
Date of Mfr. |
Notes |
0. Shinnecock Bay, 1918 |
Unknown |
1st order group flashing, with IOV lamp |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Photo shows IOV lamp, reflector,
classical lens |
1. Fire Island lighthouse
1858-1933 |
Franklin Institute,
Philadelphia |
1st order flashing classical
8 panel |
Unknown/
France |
1850s |
Fire Island has tried to regain this
lens several times |
2. Little Gull Island
lighthouse 1869-1995 |
East End Seaport Museum |
2nd order fixed classical |
Unknown Mfr./
France |
1860s |
Very good condition |
3. Eatons Neck lighthouse lantern room |
Same since 1856 |
3rd order fixed classical with reflector
plate |
Henry-LePaute/
France |
1850s |
Only LI lighthouse with an active
Fresnel lens |
4. Montauk Point lantern
room 1903-1987 |
Montauk Point museum |
3 1/2 order bivalve |
Barbier, Benard &
Turenne (BBT)/
France |
1900 |
Beautiful condition (minor prism
chipping) with windup clockworks |
5. Unknown |
Horton Point museum |
4th order fixed classical |
L. Sautter/
France |
1850s |
One of the earlier Fresnel lenses in the
US |
5a. Race Rock lantern
room |
Unknown |
4th order bivalve/classical, red/white
flashing |
Unknown |
Unknown |
One of the more unusual lenses |
6. Plum Island
lighthouse 1897-1994 |
East End Seaport Museum |
4th Order flashing
6 panel |
Barbier & Benard (B&B)/
France |
1897 |
With operating windup clockworks |
7. Unknown |
Fire Island museum |
4th order fixed flashing
4 panel |
Flashing Panels: MacBeth-Evans/US Fixed Panels:
BBT/France |
Post-1910 |
VERY UNUSUAL LENS
Difference between French crown glass & American Flint Glass is obvious on this piece
Markings: "U.S.L.H.S. No. 4-20" |
8. Unknown |
Montauk Point museum |
4th order flashing
6 panel |
Unknown |
Unknown |
One catadioptric prism missing
Markings:
"BF 56"
With windup clockworks mechanism |
9. Unknown |
Montauk Point museum |
4th order flashing
4 panel |
American Gas Accumulator (AGA)/
Elizabeth NJ |
1933 |
"Type AGA 1140-A1"
Serial No. 511
Prisms were made by BBT
Only two panels on display |
10. Unknown |
Montauk Point museum |
5th order fixed classical with reflector
plate
4 panel |
Henry-LePaute/
France |
Unknown |
Chipping on some prisms - On display
with 5th order lamp - |
11. Unknown |
Montauk Point museum |
375mm lens |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Markings:
"I.L.P. 768-4" and "No. 397"
White lens with red cylinder to give red characteristic |
12. Montauk Point
lighthouse lantern room |
Montauk Point Museum |
Incandescent Oil Vapor (IOV) Lamp |
Unknown |
Early 1900s? |
One of few such artifacts on display |