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The Union House Tavern

Date: 1900
Description: The Union House Tavern, known as Schulkamp's Corner Saloon, 2601 East Washington Avenue at Milwaukee Street. A group of men are standing on the porch holdi...
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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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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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Worker at City Water Works

Date: 11 20 1933
Description: John Hines dismantling one of two out-of-date pumps at the Madison Water Works, 311 N. Hancock Street, a job he obtained through the CWA (Civil Works Admin...
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 ...
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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...
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Men Gathered at Water Pump

Date: 1909
Description: Group of men and a boy gathered near a body of water. The men are sitting around a water pump.
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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 ...
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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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Pile Driver and Cenrifugal Pump at Prairie du Sac Dam Site

Date: 1911
Description: Steam-powered pile driver and centrifugal pump (in shed) at work at the Wisconsin River dam site. Men and children are watching the work.
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Big Boiler and Engine to Run Centrifugal Pump

Date: 07 16 1912
Description: Workmen pose around the "big boiler" and engine that power the 12 inch centrifugal pump used to pump out the coffer dam at the power dam construction site.
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International Model 63 Oil Company Trucks

Date: 05 12 1927
Description: International Model 63 trucks parked on a dirt street. According to the original caption, the trucks were owned by C. Whitie Parsons, of Borger, Texas. The...
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International 63 Truck at Oil Field

Date: 05 12 1927
Description: Men set up a drum for a new rotary drill that has just been unloaded from an International Model 63 truck belonging to E.E. Neal of Wewoka, Oklahoma. The o...
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Dredge Pump Drive

Date: 06 12 1970
Description: This dredge pump drive was purchased by Ellicott. Falk caption reads, "Special (submersible) dredge pump drive. Quad input single output, ratio 1.8214:1. 1...
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Operating Machinery Outdoors

Date: 1915
Description: A young boy in overalls operates a machine, perhaps a pump for water, underneath a windmill. There are overturned buckets in the foreground. An elderly man...
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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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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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Charles Brown at Pump

Date: 1925
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 ...
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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...

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