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Family Grouped around Table by House

Date: 1879
Description: A family is grouped around a table, including a man with a top hat, two dolls on the ground between two small girls and a woman holding a closed fan. Behin...
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Farmhouse on Hill

Date: 1900
Description: View up hill towards farmhouse. There is a woman using a hand-pump in the yard on the right.
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Pumping Station for Lake Forest at Arboretum

Date: 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Arboretum station was built when the site was a proposed site for a model city called Lake Forest, a scheme which fail...
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Power Unit Operating Water Well

Date: 09 17 1937
Description: A.C. White, contractor, stands near a rotary water well rig powered by an International P-12 power unit mounted on a truck.
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Pumping Station

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Description: Exterior of a wooden water pumping station in a wooded area. Caption reads: "Pumping Station at Stuttgart on Cotton Belt, Near Jonesboro, Ark."
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Old House with Water Pump

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Description: View of a water pump near the door of a dilapidated house, overgrown with vines.
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Young Girl Cooling Canned Corn

Date: 1925
Description: Young girl identified as Jewel Keller using a water pump outside a farm house to cool freshly canned corn.
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High School

Date: 1925
Description: View of the front of the high school. The grounds feature a hand-pump water well and a flag post.
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Cranberry Bog Irrigation

Date: 08 28 1922
Description: Irrigation pump on the Edward Hoffman, Upper Bog shortly after the completion of the pump installation.
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Ziemer Property

Date: 10 1979
Description: "Hubert Oechsner, Norm Grantman, and Peter Dogs were photographed at the Ziemer property."
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Garage at Europe Lake

Date: 1921
Description: The garage, with vertical log siding, near the Hotz family cottage at Europe Lake. There is a pump on the front porch, and a bell with a rope on the peak o...
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Street Scene

Date: 1921
Description: View down unpaved road of a filling station. Along the side of the station on the left is a hand-pump, and a large tank lying on its side. Three buildings ...
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Group of People in Front of Frame House

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Description: Three people are standing in front of a frame house which is at the foot of a small tree-covered hill. On the left a man is standing with a team of two hor...
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Family in Front of House

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Description: View of group of people posing in a yard. A man is sitting surrounded by a woman, young girl and boy, and an older boy. The young girl is holding a hat and...
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Man at Water Pump

Date: 1965
Description: A man hand pumps water in the yard outside of White Station Freedom House. "In all the rural Freedom Houses (and all rural houses) wells and outhous...
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J.H. Frazier Residence

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Description: View from street of the J.H. Frazier Residence, which is a two-story wood frame home with a porch and a balcony. There is a small garden in the center of t...
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Public School

Date: 1930
Description: View up hill of the public school, which is a two-story wood frame building with a belfry in the center of the roof. Stairs lead to the arched entrance, an...
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Ford in the Weeds

Date: 1962
Description: Old Ford coupe in a farm setting.
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UD-24 — Irrigation

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-24 — Irrigation." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Carl Lane, Klamath Falls, Oregon who owns a 960-acre farm ne...
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Water Supply and Plumbing at Mexican Labor Settlement

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Two outhouses and another building are in a field, with a water pump in the left foreground. Caption reads: "This Press picture shows the water supply and ...

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