The Online Books Page

Lighthouses -- California

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Lighthouses
• Aids to navigation -- California
• Hydraulic structures -- California
• Lighthouses -- United States
• California

• Lighthouses -- California -- San Diego
• Lighthouses -- California -- San Francisco Bay
• Point Loma Lighthouse (San Diego, Calif.)
• Lighthouses -- Law and legislation -- California

• Pacific coast of the United States. (U. S. Govt. print off., 1914), by United States Bureau of Light-Houses (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pacific coast of the United States. Buoy list, California. Eighteenth lighthouse district (Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1912), by United States Bureau of Light-Houses (page images at HathiTrust)

• Point Loma Lighthouse : Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, California (Harpers Ferry Center, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1990), by Katherine Menz and Harpers Ferry Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief history of the old Spanish lighthouse (W. Davidson, 1926), by Winifred Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Contract for construction of concrete base for light and fog-signal station on Mile Rock, at entrance to San Francisco harbor, California. ([San Francisco, 1904), by United States Light-House Board and United States. Light-House Board. Contract for construction of a structural steel tower .. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Point Loma Lighthouse : Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, California (Harpers Ferry Center, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1990), by Katherine Menz and Harpers Ferry Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Piedras Blancas Historic Light Station Outstanding Natural Area Act of 2005 : report (to accompany H.R. 3534) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• To eliminate an unused lighthouse reservation, provide management consistency by incorporating the rocks and small islands along the coast of Orange County, California, into the California Coastal National Monument managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and meet the original congressional intent of preserving Orange County's rocks and small islands, and for other purposes : report (to accompany H.R. 86) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 2009), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ancient and Modern Light-Houses (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1889), by D. P. Heap (multiple formats at Google)
• A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World (London: R. H. Laurie, 1861), by Alexander George Findlay (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouse Construction and Illumination (London and New York: E. and F. N. Spon, 1881), by Thomas Stevenson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lighthouses and Lightships: A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1870), by W. H. Davenport Adams (multiple formats at Google)
• The Lights and Tides of the World, Including a Description of All the Fog-Signals (fifth edition; London: Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson, 1904), by Henry D. Jenkins
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Lightships and Lighthouses (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; London: W. Heinemann, 1913), by Frederick A. Talbot (multiple formats at Google)
• The Modern Light-House Service (Washington: GPO, 1889), by Arnold Burges Johnson (multiple formats at Google)
• Our Seamarks: A Plain Account of the Lighthouses, Lightships, Beacons, Buoys, and Fog-Signals Maintaned on Our Coasts for the Guidance of Mariners (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1884), by E. Price Edwards (multiple formats at Google; US acces only)
• A Rudimentary Treatise on the History, Construction, and Illumination of Lighthouses (London: J. Weale, 1850), by Alan Stevenson (multiple formats at Google)
• The Story of Our Lighthouses and Lightships, Descriptive and Historical (London et al.: T. Nelson and Co., 1891), by W. H. Davenport Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse, With Notes on the Illumination of Lighthouses (Edinburgh: A. and C. Black; London: Longman and Co., 1848), by Alan Stevenson (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouses: Their History and Romance (New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell Co.; London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1895), by William John Hardy
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Smeaton and Lighthouses: A Popular Biography, With an Historical Introduction and Sequel (London: J. W. Parker, 1844) (multiple formats at Google)
• Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie; Harbours, Lighthouses, Bridges (based on the J. Murray popular edition of 1904; with additional recent illustrations and notes), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Ian Petticrew (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• Lighthouses of the world (London., in the 19th century) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rudimentary treatise on the history, construction, and illumination of lighthouses. (J. Weale, 1850), by Alan Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lighthouse construction and illumination (E. & F.N. Spon, 1881), by Thomas Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lightships and lighthouses (J. B. Lippincott company;, 1913), by Frederick A. Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern light-house service. (Govt. print. off., 1889), by Arnold Burges Johnson and United States Light-House Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lighthouses and lightships of the United States (Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company ; Cambridge [Mass.] : The Riverside Press, 1917., 1917), by G. R. Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advisory and technical committee for communications and transit. Permanent committee for ports and maritime navigation. Technical committee for buoyage and the lighting of coasts. General report on the provisions agreed to, with three annexes setting out the various regulations adopted. (Imps. Atar et Chambéry, 1926), by League of Nations (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Advisory and technical committee for communications and transit. Report of the Technical committee for buoyage and the lighting of coasts and documents relative thereto ... (Imp. Atar et Chambéry, 1927), by League of Nations (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient and modern light-houses (Ticknor and company, 1889), by D. P. Heap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Smeaton and lighthouses. A popular biography, with an historical introduction and sequel. (J. W. Parker, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wasserbau und verwandte anwendungen ... Uferbefestigungen, schleusen, wehre, talsperren, leuchttürme und leuchtbaken, hellinge, schiffe und schwimmkörper (W. Ernst & sohn, 1926), by Otto Lienau, Bernhard Kressner, F. W. Otto Schulze, and Erwin Marquardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Advisory and technical committee for communications and transit. Permanent committee on ports and maritime navigation. Technical committee for buoyage and the lighting of coasts. Minutes ... (Geneva, in the 1920s), by League of Nations (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Light list: Great Lakes, United States and Canada. Ninth Coast Guard district. (U.S.G.P.O., 1951), by United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual teorico-practico del torrero de faros (Apuntes para el ingreso en el cuerpo) (M. de Los Heros, 1923), by Angel Rapallo y Orts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lighthouses and lightships; a descriptive and historical account of their mode of construction and organization. (C.Scribner and Co., 1870), by W. H. Davenport Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les phares (L. Hachette et cie., 1867), by Léon Renard and Jules Noël (page images at HathiTrust)
• My holidays. (Printed by W. & R. Chambers] for private circulation, 1867), by William Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern light-house service. (Govt. Print. Off., 1890), by Arnold Burges Johnson and United States Light-House Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide des marins pendant la navigation nocturne, ou, Description générale des phares, fanaux, etc. : construits pour la sureté de la navigation (Hector Bossange, 1829), by Phillippe Jean Coulier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description des phares existent sur le littoral maritime du globe. (Robiquet, 1866), by Ph. J. Coulier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lighthouses. (Edinburgh, 1865), by David Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rudimentary treatise on the history, construction and illumination of lighthouses. (London, 1850), by A. Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• On international conventions for the maintenance of sea-lights. (Printed by W. Clowes and sons, 1879), by Travers Twiss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lighthouses and lightships; a descriptive and historical account of their mode of construction and organization. (T. Nelson, 1870), by W. H. Davenport Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• I battelli a vapore ed i fari : opera compilata da B. Besso in continuazione alle Macchine a vapore. (E. Treves, 1869), by Beniamino Besso and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of light-houses, lighted beacons, and floating lights of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts of the United States <1862>- (Government Printing Office., in the 19th century), by United States Light-House Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lightships and lighthouses (W. Heinemann, 1913), by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The maintenance and operation of a small wind generator in the marine environment (U.S. Department of Transportation, United States Coast Guard, Office of Research and Development ;, 1986), by Warren Heerlein, United States. Coast Guard. Office of Research and Development, and U.S. Coast Guard Research & Development Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur les phares électriques, comprenant le programme de l'éclairage électrique des côtes de France. (Impr. nationale, 1881), by Émile Allard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eddystone lighthouses (new and old): an account of the building and general arrangements of the new tower (Simpkin, Marshall, 1882), by E. Price Edwards, Thomas Williams, and John Smeaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sea its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism (Cassel, Petter and Galpin, 1878), by Frederick Whymper (page images at HathiTrust)
• A description and list of the lighthouses of the world, 1863 (Published for R.H. Laurie, 1863), by Alexander George Findlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lights and tides of the world (J. Imray, 1866), by James F. Imray and W. H. Rosser (page images at HathiTrust)
• A description and list of the lighthouses of the world, 1861 (Printed by and for R.H. Laurie, 1861), by Alexander George Findlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Admiralty list of lights on the eastern coasts of North America and Central America from Labrador to the River Amazon, including Bermuda and islands of the West Indies (Printed for H.M.S.O., 1885), by Great Britain Admiralty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lights and fog signals (Office of the Light-House Board, 1894), by United States Light-House Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• European light-house systems; being a report of a tour of inspection made in 1873 (Lockwood, 1875), by United States Light-House Board and George Henry Elliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• A description and list of the lighthouses of the world, 1887. (Published by R.H. Laurie, 1887), by E. Price Edwards and Alexander G. Findlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Rogers Clark Memorial Lighthouse : hearing before the Committee on the Library, United States Senate, Seventy-first Congress, second session, on S. 2730, a bill to authorize the construction of a George Rodgers Clark Memorial Lighthouse on the Ohio River at, or adjacent to, the city of Louisville, Ky. (U.S. G.P.O., 1930), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructions and directions to light keepers (G.P.O., 1871), by United States Light-House Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of lights and fog signals ... (U.S. Navy Dept., Hydrographic Office, 1955), by United States. Hydrographic Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of lights, buoys, beacons, and day marks of the Philippine Islands ... (Manila, in the 20th century), by Philippines. Department of Agriculture and Commerce. Navigation Division, Philippines. Bureau of Commerce and Industry, Philippines. Bureau of Customs, Philippines. Bureau of navigation, and Philippines. Bureau of Coast Guard and Transportation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Feux-éclairs ([Sautter, Harlé & cie.], 1896), by Jean Rey and Harlé & Cie Sautter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lighthouses and Lightships: A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization, by W. H. Davenport Adams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lightships and Lighthouses, by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (Gutenberg ebook)
• Smeaton and Lighthouses: A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel (Gutenberg ebook)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.