August 1987 1987-Aug. The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake de Gast, Robert Johns Hopkins Univ. The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake de Gast, Robert Johns Hopkins Univ. The Old Point Loma Lighthouse, San Diego Holland, F. Ross Cabrillo Historical Assoc. This list of books about lighthouses represents a 25 year effort to collect as many books on the subject as I could find.
Collectors are a strange sort.
In my case, I purchased my first book on this subject in 1972 because I liked the pictures. Oddly enough, I had never even been to a lighthouse, though I have since visited many of them. When I started this, I had a strong sense of their historical importance. By then, the lights were all automated and satellite technology was rapidly making lighthouse obsolete after decades or centuries of service. The old Fresnel lenses, technological marvels, were being turned off and replaced by smaller, modern, less labor intensive lighting mechanisms.