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English: Light house on Destruction Island, June 1907   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Lynds Jones  (1865–1951)  wikidata:Q42478362
 
Lynds Jones
Description American professor, ornithologist and ecologist
Date of birth/death 5 January 1865 Edit this at Wikidata 11 February 1951 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q42478362
Title
English: Light house on Destruction Island, June 1907
Description
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Destruction Island is a rocky forty acre island in the Pacific Ocean four miles offshore from west central Jefferson County, southwest of the mouth of the Hoh River. The Indian name for the island was hob-to-la-bish. [Tacoma Public Library." Washington Place Names" Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room. http: www.tpl.lib.wa.us (accessed Sept. 22, 2005)]

Written on back of photograph: Destruction Island, June 1907. Lynds Jones.

Also known as Isla de Dolores and Island of Sorres. [Getty. "Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online" http://www.getty.edu (accessed Sept. 22, 2005) ]

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  • Subjects (LCTGM): Lighthouses--Washington (State)--Destruction Island
Depicted place Destruction Island
Date June 1907
date QS:P571,+1907-06-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium
English: b&w
Dimensions height: 4 in (10.1 cm); width: 5 in (12.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,4U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,5U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
1368
Source
English: Washington State Localities Photographs
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The author died in 1951, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
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WAS1377

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