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Postcards, which enjoyed great popularity before World War 1, give us a good idea of how the lighthouse looked during it's first twenty years. However, most postcards of that era were printed in Germany and the artists creating them from glass plate black & white negatives often took liberties with the colors. The results were beautiful, if sometimes inaccurate.
The first four cards offer a fairly accurate view
of how things were, with the exception of the card in the second row, left, which shows the caisson and lantern painted red.
The bottom two cards, however, show the scene in either garish colors (no doubt to spice up the card) or in the midst of a moonlit night. Interestingly, if you look closely, you'll see that both of these cards, printed a number of years apart, were derived from the same photograph.
