Research: Topics: Environment: Preliminary Guide to Environmental Sources
Preliminary Guide to Environmental Sources
Federal Government Repositories In New York State
Fire Island National Seashore. Seashore Headquarters
Library.
Patchogue, N.Y.
- Fire Island Lighthouse (N.Y.). Seashore Headquarters Library.
Photographs and etchings, 1821-1988.
300 photographs; 400 slides.
Arrangement: By subject.
Photographs and etchings that depict various aspects of Fire Island. Etchings of the first lighthouse, and etchings and photographs of the present lighthouse, including building plans, lens and pedestal plans, 1830-1988; telegraph station and Western Union tower, 1870-1898; maps, charts, and plans, 1851-1986; and images of lighthouse keepers and their families, storms from the hurricane of 1938 to Hurricane Gloria in 1985, United States Life Saving Service personnel and activities, shipwrecks and rum runners, oystering, fishing, bathing, boating, the beach, and the Surf Hotel, and pictures filed in categories such as ecology, edible plants, wildlife, and dangerous plants and insects.
Slides (1984-1988) depict the Lighthouse Restoration Project, damage to Fire Island from Hurricane Gloria and other storms, birds, animals, and scenery, and museum exhibits, with some aerial views of Fire Island.
- Fire Island National Seashore (N.Y.). Seashore Headquarters Library.
Information file, 1878-1988.
13 cubic ft.
Articles, brochures, clippings, reports, pamphlets, newsletters, booklets, maps, leaflets, plans of life-saving stations, correspondence, memorandum, and two transcriptions of oral interviews with former lighthouse keeper and a person who lived near the lighthouse, 1878-1988. The subjects are Life Saving Service and Coast Guard - Fire Island and elsewhere, Long Island lighthouses - Fire Island, elsewhere, and administration, Lyme disease, marine life, mosquitoes, National Park Service, oceanography, plants on Fire Island, pollution, sediments - Fire Island, whales, shipwrecks, water resources, weather, shellfish, and the William Floyd Estate. The files contain a copy of Fire Island Station U.S. Coast Guard log 1-19 Jan. 1919; and a list of life saving personnel at Fire Island.
- Fire Island National Seashore (N.Y.). Seashore Headquarters Library.
Research papers, 1965-1987.
2 cubic ft.
Copies of masters' theses entitled "A Study of the Ecology of the Plants in the Sunken Forest, Fire Island, New York" by Edward Schulte, 1965; "Plant Ecology of Fire Island Barrier Dunes" by John T. Criscolo, Jr., 1966; "Effects of Erosion on Barrier-Island Geomorphology, Fire Island, New York" by Kenneth Ruzyla, 1972; "Summer Effect of Vehicles on Beaches of Fire Island, New York" by Rachel Tauman, 1977; "The Geomorphic Effects of Off-Road Vehicles on the Beach, Fire Island, New York" by Christopher Visco, 1977; copy of doctoral dissertation "Geomorphology and Littoral Processes Between Jones Beach and Montauk Point, Long Island, New York" by Donald Wayne Ash, 1972; and various reports "The Great South Bay," 1969; "A Report on Mosquito Control on Fire Island National Seashore," 1971; "A Study of Vegetation of Watch Hill, Fire Island," 1975; "The Early Life Saving Services on Long Island and in Particular, Their Part in the Rescue of the JOHN B. MANNING and the LOUIS V. PLACE," 1978, and "Natural and Human Evolution of the Sunken Forest, Fire Island, New York," 1987.