The United States Lighthouse Service base at La Puntilla, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The photographer is looking north-east-by-north from a cruise ship in San Juan Bay showing the south-west side of the Lighthouse Service base. In the left background is the Banco Comercial De Puerto Rico and the Hotel Palace. In the right background is the pier of the New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co with a single funneled steamship berthed on the far side of it.