Egg Rock Light off Lynn Shore, Lynn, Massachusetts, circa 1910

Subjects: Coastal Scenery Lighthouses
Card type: Real photo
Date: c. 1930 (White Border)

Back of Egg Rock Light off Lynn Shore, Lynn, Massachusetts, circa 1910, c. 1930 real photo postcard — Back

About this postcard

The photograph shows Egg Rock Light, a small lighthouse with keeper's quarters and outbuildings, perched atop a low rocky island in open water off the shore of Lynn, Massachusetts. Egg Rock Light was established in Nahant Bay in the mid-1850s to guide vessels into Lynn Harbor, and the station was discontinued in the early 1920s; the rocky island is today a bird sanctuary. The card's own caption names the view simply as "Egg Rock Light off Lynn Shore."

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Love & best wishes Grandma.

PostmarkedNewburyport, MA, September 19, 1906, 10:00

Addressed to

Charlotte F. Hassett

44 Shapleigh St, Amesbury, MA

Postcard record

Postmarked	September 19, 1906, 10:00, Newburyport, MA
Publisher	The Puritan Art Co.
Condition	Good
Place addressed	Charlotte F. Hassett, 44 Shapleigh St, Amesbury, MA
Place depicted	Egg Rock Light, Lynn, MA
Publisher	The Puritan Art Co., Lynn, MA
Stamp	1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1930
Notes	Black-and-white photographic print with a narrow white margin at the bottom carrying the caption; light soiling and edge wear, handwritten greeting on the front. Postmark: NEWBURYPORT SEP 19 10 00 AM 1906. Undivided back with red "POST CARD" heading and "This side for the Address.", 1¢ green Franklin stamp, publisher imprint printed vertically at left ("Germany"). Light edge/corner wear, slight toning.

Cite this card

Egg Rock Light off Lynn Shore, Lynn, Massachusetts, circa 1910, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/egg-rock-light-off-lynn-shore-lynn-massachusetts-circa-1910. Accessed October 24, 2026.