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| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Chinese advertising poster for International engines. Features a color illustration of a stationary engine and two illustrations of engines powering machin... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Jack Kendall of International's Amarillo branch stands beside a Fairbanks-Morse turbine water pump powered by an International PA-50 power unit. |
| Date: | 03 24 1938 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 09 17 1937 |
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| Description: | A.C. White, contractor, stands near a rotary water well rig powered by an International P-12 power unit mounted on a truck. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Charles E. Brown stands beside a chain and crank operated water pump. Brown was the curator of the museum of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and ... |
| Date: | 07 10 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a wood platform and uses a hand operated water pump to fill a metal bucket. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| 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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| Description: | Elevated view of dredging operations at the mouth of Bear Creek in Canada. Caption reads: "Dredging Operations at the Mouth of Bear Creek, Dawson, Y.T." |
| Date: | 04 19 1926 |
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| Description: | A man uses a well to pump water into a metal bucket while standing in front of a farmhouse. |
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| Description: | View of a roof-covered water pump in a wooded residential area. |
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| Description: | View of a water pump in the middle of a dirt road. In the background a horse-drawn buggy is parked on the side of the road. A small group of people are in ... |
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| Description: | A well in a clearing with a wooden bucket hanging from a "well-sweep." |
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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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| 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... |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | LeRoy Priesgen proves that this old pump still is capable of pumping water. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house. |
| Date: | 02 1928 |
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| Description: | A boy wearing a winter coat and hat is pumping water from a well into ladles two other boys are holding. A shed, wheelbarrow, and wood scraps are in the ba... |
| Date: | 05 26 1926 |
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| Description: | A man using a wooden pump to fill a metal pail with water. The photograph was staged to demonstrate a hazard found on farms. |
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