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Woman Draws Water from Well

Date: 1920
Description: Farm woman operating a McCormick-Deering portable gasoline engine. The engine is driving a pump to draw water from a well into a homemade trough. Another w...
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Woman Hauling Water

Date: 1920
Description: A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house.
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Men at Artesian Well

Date: 1920
Description: A man is standing in the road next to an automobile at an artesian well, while two men are standing on the right in front of a wooden fence. Water flows fr...
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Engine-Powered Water Pump

Date: 1920
Description: An International stationary engine powers a water pump outside a brick building, possibly a school. There is a cat on the left near the pump.
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Fishing

Date: 1920
Description: Three men and a woman pose with a pole of a stringer of fish. One of the men holds his pet dog. Behind them on the left is a bathtub, hand-pump for water, ...

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