OVERALL LIGHTHOUSE HISTORY
- U.S. Coast Guard’s Lighthouse Index
- Kraig Anderson’s Lighthouse Friends
- Jeremy D’Entremont’s New England Lighthouses: A Virtual Guide
- Terry Pepper’s Seeing the Light–Lighthouses of the Western Great Lakes
- U.S. Lighthouse Society’s Keeper’s Log Articles
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
- U.S. Coast Guard’s Aids to Navigation: A Historical Bibliography
- GLLKA’s Great Lakes Lighthouse Bibliography
LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS & OTHER PERSONNEL
- 1881 Instructions to Light-House Keepers
- U.S. Coast Guard’s Coast Guard Personnel
- GLLKA’s Researching Lighthouse Keepers
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
- National Archives’s Basic Search Path for Record Relating to Lighthouses
- Candace Clifford’s Lighthouse Records Finding Aid for Record Group 26
OTHER
- Library of Congress’s American State Papers – Legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838
- U.S. Lighthouse Society’s Light Lists
PHOTOGRAPHY / PLANS / MAPS
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey’s Library of Congress collection – HABS and HAER have documented multiple lighthouses. Search on a lighthouse name to find downloadable plans and photographs
- NOAA’s Coast Survey Historical Map & Chart Collection
- U.S. Coast Guard’s Historic Light Stations – photos can be found under individual lighthouses listings under their state location
- U.S. Coast Guard’s Historic Photo Galleries
- U.S. Lighthouse Society’s Architectural Drawings
- U.S. Lighthouse Society’s Historical Photos