North Head beacon and station buildings before the 1907 lens upgrade.
Telegraph notes describe repeated winter spray over the lantern gallery, visible as salt staining across the tower base.
Archive Photography of the Northern Coast
A carefully indexed visual record of beacons, weather, and working shoreline life—read each image as both documentary evidence and lived coastal memory.
Archive gallery
Historic lighthouse photographs from the northern coast
A curated selection of field negatives, keeper records, and preservation-era documentation. Use these plates as visual reference before exploring each tower in the map index.
Lantern-room maintenance ahead of summer shipping lanes.
Signal crew portrait outside the compressed-air horn house.
Chart-room desk prepared for evening approach observations.
Community repainting campaign before site reopening.