I found this photo in my father's slides. I haven't had a chance to co-relate the slide with the index yet. I don't recognize it so I think it must be from someplace I haven't been such as maybe Finland? Probably taken in the early 1960s



I cropped it in a little closer

Very interesting Rosalie!

A unique lighthouse:

traditional shape, traditional marking, tall, but located in a fairly densely populated city - and inshore a ways.

I looked at Google images for Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Germany without spotting it. (Doesn't mean it's not in one of those countries, but it didn't pop-out from the hundreds of images I looked at.)

In the un-cropped pictures, can you make out what that sign says in the closest building? Looks like a hotel.

It's not Absecon, but it sure is similar in setting, shape, and even colors. And John, I believe that's not a sign but a mural on the side of the building.

It is tile decoration on the side of the building and not a sign. I may have misled you about the location although I do think it looks like Europe. It does look quite a lot like Abescon.

I went and looked in the book that lists the slides. This is what it said

Which mean that when we cataloged these, we didn't have enough of them for their own section and sometimes that we weren't sure where the picture had been taken. Sometimes my dad went on trips without my mom and at least once, we got a slide back that was clearly taken in Rome and my parents had never been to Rome at any time.

Listed under Odds and Ends

In this group, I can identify 4739, 4746, 4747, 4749, and 4751 This picture is 4747 and 4746 is clearly Atlantic City taken from a hotel window -through the fog I can make out the sign on the Hotel New Belmont. But I don't think this is Atlantic City.

I think 4749 - the photo of the monument on the hill says on the bottom "The Peace Cross". It is a plain concrete celtic style cross.

I'm pretty sure the pictures were taken c 1959-1960. In that time frame - more or less in order are pictures from:

Miami
South Carolina
Duke
Chancellorsville and D.C.
Annapolis
Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Denver
Oberlin
Keyport, NJ
Philadelphia
New York
New Orleans
Pensacola
New Haven
New London
Northwestern Univ in Chicago
Emery in Atlanta
Un of Tnn
Vanderbilt
Tulane
Swampscott Mass

I asked Margret to take a look at it. She can give us the European perspective.

Thank you

I finally asked Russ, and he said:

The black band looks too narrow on your picture for Absecon, but I haven't found a picture from the right time period. Maybe when it was painted the city's colors the band was a different width. Nice puzzle since I am suffering mystery lighthouse withdrawal.

The band in my dad's photo is dark blue and I think the lantern room is too.

I'd be glad to do some mystery lighthouses (the ones I know what they are already) but I never could guess one so I never got to try.