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Operating Machinery Outdoors

Date: 1915
Description: A young boy in overalls operates a machine, perhaps a pump for water, underneath a windmill. There are overturned buckets in the foreground. An elderly man...
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Stationary Engine and Water Pump

Date: 1915
Description: A stationary engine (possibly a Mogul) in a small wooden shed is used to power a belt-driven water pump positioned nearby. A small wood sign reads 'private...
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Deteriorated Farm Building

Date: 1915
Description: Farm structure with wood boards askew on the outer walls, and loose shingles on the roof. Underneath an open section is a hand-pump on a platform. Ducks ar...
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Farmhouse with Windmill Tower

Date: 1915
Description: View across fence toward a house, with a windmill in the side yard. Pumping machinery is under the windmill tower support. An outbuilding is in the backgro...

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