Cleveland, OH Photo - East Pierhead Lighthouse, Cleveland, Ohio

East Pierhead Lighthouse. The river cruises also include a short trip out into Lake Erie where two lighthouses mark the ends of the breakwaters that define the entrance to the Cuyahoga River. The two lighthouses, the West Pierhead Light and the East Pierhead Light, were activated in 1911 on a pair of spurs that were extended into Lake Erie from the existing breakwaters. Before the extensions, a pair of lighthouses, as seen in the picture to the right, marked the ends of the breakwaters at the entrance to Cleveland Harbor and a third light marked the end of the west pier at the entrance to the Cuyahoga River.

Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life ’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange.

Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.