Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: CAMERA TALKS
Event Date: after 1914
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.292771

Inscriptions:
Captions: Here is the Cape Point Lighthouse. 268 feet above the __. The foundation stone reads 'April 25, 1914'. Mr. Lindon's task is to look after the 19 million candle power light, the strongest light on our coast. It __ from a 4000 watt bulb and reflectors which are shaded from the sun's rays by heavy curtaining round the window (as you may see). The reflectors, acting like the magnifying glass, would otherwise set the curtain alight. When Mr. Linden was on Dassar Island this once happened.Markings:Here is the Cape Point Lighthouse. 268 feet above the __. The foundation stone reads 'April 25, 1914'. Mr. Lindon's task is to look after the 19 million candle power light, the strongest light on our coast. It __ from a 4000 watt bulb and reflectors which are shaded from the sun's rays by heavy curtaining round the window (as you may see). The reflectors, acting like the magnifying glass, would otherwise set the curtain alight. When Mr. Linden was on Dassar Island this once happened.

Tagasauris Keywords: Aerial View; Architecture; Candlepower; Cape Point; Cliff; Day; Lighthouse; Nobody; Nobody; Ocean; Outdoors; Panoramic; Rock; South Africa; Water
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: LIGHT HOUSES / FOREIGN
Retouching: N