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P6694

ID Number: P6694
Item Name: Image
Title: View from the Old Lighthouse / Vue depuis le vieux phare
Title (Fre): Vue depuis le vieux phare
Date: ca 1941
Description: Black and white photograph taken from atop the Lighthouse at the mouth of the Thames River; the railing of the lighthouse is visible in the foreground; the river extends from the left side of the photo up through the centre; trees are visible in the foreground and background and farmland is visible on the right hand side; there are several automobiles parked in the foreground.
History: In the early 1940s tourists could travel to the lighthouse and mount to the top to watch fishermen on the Thames during fishing season, look inland across land once marsh but then productive, look westward to the marsh stretching along Lake St. Clair, or across the Thames to Kent County on the other side.
Place made: Canada - Ontario - Essex County
Collection Name: Museum Windsor

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Aerial views / Vues aériennes

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