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Pumping Station

Date: 
Description: Exterior of a wooden water pumping station in a wooded area. Caption reads: "Pumping Station at Stuttgart on Cotton Belt, Near Jonesboro, Ark."
Photograph

Man Monitoring a Pumping Plant

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Description: A mustachioed man in coveralls monitors a pressure gauge and the machinery at a pumping plant. Caption reads: "Pumping Plant. The Homestead. Prudence Islan...
Photograph

Men around Water Pump

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Description: A group of men wearing hats gathered around a water pump. Scaffolding surrounds the operation and a large pulley is visible. Text on image reads "Largest f...
Photograph

Depot

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view from railroad tracks of the Depot. Four men are standing alongside the depot building near a wheeled cart. The building features two signs, o...
Print

Dear Valentine

Date: 1925
Description: Valentine's Day card with a boy pumping water while a girl is scrubbing a heart in a tub. He is wearing a blue outfit and she is wearing a lacy blouse. A s...
Photograph

Cranberry Bog Irrigation

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

Dayton Pump Products Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Dayton Pump Products Company of Belgium, Wisconsin, distributor of Dayton Water Systems, with six vignettes of water systems in use: wate...
Photograph

Eagle Corners School

Date: 1932
Description: Students and their teacher, Gladys Hofseth (back row, far right), pose outside Eagle Corners School. The school is a wood frame building with an enclosed p...
Postcard

Commercial Hotel

Date: 06 28 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of the exterior of the three-story Commercial Hotel. The building has a false front. Two women stand on the balcony and two men stand...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Home of Willard Nuss

Date: 1933
Description: Submitted as an example of "The Homes of Pupils," this two-story Victorian house was the parsonage of Peace Reformed Church and home of Pastor Edward P. Nu...
Photograph

Getting Water

Date: 1931
Description: George Stallman and Walter Shinkus pose with a bucket at the water pump outside the Tibbets School. They are "getting water for the school." There are hou...
Book or Pamphlet

Eclipse Wind Engine Co. Catalog

Date: 1880
Description: Page from Eclipse Wind Engine Co. [Beloit, Wisconsin] catalog featuring an illustration of an Eclipse Wind Engine installed in a barn. A cut-away view show...
Book or Pamphlet

Goulds Manufacturing Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man standing and holding onto a Goulds Monarch Sprayer. Text reads: "How to Spray, When to Spray — What Spraye...
Photograph

Bicycling Outing in Waucheta

Date: 09 20 1896
Description: Group of men, and a young boy, standing in the small front yard of a house at a bicycling outing. A woman stands in an open doorway at the top of the steps...
Postcard

Lawson M.T.2 — Pilot Seat. Air Pump and "Pyrene" Mounting

Date: 1917
Description: Photographic postcard showing details of the pilot's seat for a Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2), including the Pyrene mounting.
Photograph

Reclaimed Marsh Land on a University of Wisconsin Farm

Date: 06 30 1895
Description: A man is standing in the right foreground near a tall plant, perhaps corn. In the center is a square-shaped pond with high banks. A man is in the backgroun...
Photograph

Beer Fermentation Vats

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Description: Open-top primary fermentation vats at Fauerbach Brewing Company, used for brewing beer. The wooden vats were made of white oak. There is a pump visible on ...
Photograph

Stuart and Frank at Work

Date: 1906
Description: Stuart, left, and Frank Fargo, both dressed in bib overalls, posing in front of the open door of a carriage house. Stuart is wearing a broad brimmed hat. T...
Photograph

Back Porch

Date: 1925
Description: A hand pump and dinner bell flank the screen door of a porch at the Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder summer home at Pine Lake. The walls of the house are st...

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