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Category: Objects -> Maritime: Objects  
Donor: Unknown
Location: Document Room -> Document Boxes -> Maritime Carferries  
Accession Number: 2016.2533.1561  
Name of Object: Maritime/Carferries - Pere Marquette 18  
Description: 75 years ago article about PM18 Popular Mechanics. Photocopied page also mentions Madam Curie radium isolation work. Last of the keepers - government adoption of acetylene-powered buoys seemed to spell the end for the lighthouse keeper, but a truly maintenance-free beacon was years away. 2 copies