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Woman Pumping Water from Farm Well

Date: 04 1923
Description: A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background.
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Woman Pumping Water from Farmhouse Well

Date: 
Description: Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse.
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School Children Playing "Baby in the Hole"

Date: 05 20 1924
Description: Country school children playing "Baby in the Hole." There is a hand-pump in the background under trees.
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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...
Book or Pamphlet

Lily Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1916
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Lily brand of cream separators showing a woman drinking a cup of water from a hand-pump, and ...
Photograph

Filming a "Home Economics" Scene

Date: 1925
Description: Mr. Hyde and Miss Wigent filming a woman and child while the woman is filling pails with water from a hand-pump. The original caption reads: "Taking footag...
Photograph

Man Pumps Water from Well with International Engine

Date: 1930
Description: Man pumping water from a well with a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine.
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Company Low Spread Manure Spreaders

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester Low Spread manure spreaders. Features an illustration of a man encouraging his horses to drink ...
Photograph

Motorized Water Pump

Date: 1923
Description: View of what appears to be a water pump powered by an International Harvester stationary engine on the farm of Albert Guenther.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Engine

Date: 11 26 1923
Description: Motorized water pump powered by a 1.5 H.P. McCormick-Deering engine on the farm of Walter Stange(?).
Poster

International Engines Advertising Poster

Date: 1924
Description: Chinese advertising poster for International engines. Features a color illustration of a stationary engine and two illustrations of engines powering machin...
Photograph

Water Pumps in Mine

Date: 1939
Description: International PA-100 power unit operating a Pomona water pump in a lead and zinc mine. A box labeled "dynamite" is in the foreground.
Photograph

Man with Turbine Pump

Date: 1938
Description: Jack Kendall of International's Amarillo branch stands beside a Fairbanks-Morse turbine water pump powered by an International PA-50 power unit.
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Municipal Water Plant Pump House

Date: 03 24 1938
Description: Interior view of the municipal water plant pump house showing the auxiliary and emergency pump units, powered by an International P-30 power unit.
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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.
Photograph

Ordnance Steel Foundry Excavation

Date: 07 10 1942
Description: Overhead view of four people standing in a muddy excavated hole for a footing at the Ordnance Steel Foundry. The Foundry may have served as part of Interna...
Photograph

Man Operating Hand Water Pump

Date: 1916
Description: A man stands on a wood platform and uses a hand operated water pump to fill a metal bucket.
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Engine Powered Water Pump

Date: 1916
Description: Mogul Jr. 1 HP engine attached with a belt to a water pump. Water flows into a nearby small stone building on a farm. A barn is in the background, as well ...
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Man Pumping Water at Well

Date: 04 19 1926
Description: A man uses a well to pump water into a metal bucket while standing in front of a farmhouse.
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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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