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| Description: | View of the City Water Works, which was built in 1882. Caption reads: "City Water Works, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Storage Tank #2. A large, rounded tank with a conical roof. Another tank is directly behind. A large brick building is on the right. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | West side of filter building. Pipes are stacked on the right side of the building, and part of a storage tank can be seen on the left. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Front view of pump room, side of part of Boiler Room. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the stone-walled headquarters building of the Water Regulatory Board located within a grove of trees. According to text included with the ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | International I-4 industrial tractor with crane owned by the Milwaukee Waterworks. Original caption reads: "The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, purchased thi... |
| Date: | 11 16 1989 |
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| Description: | View from the Water Street Bridge over the Waupaca River toward the Waupaca Water Department. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A worker in a hat stands and takes a drink out of a clear glass jug on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption states: "One o... |
| Date: | 02 20 1950 |
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| Description: | League of Women Voters member Mrs. Frederick (Priscilla) Greeky interviews Leon A. Smith, superintendent of Madison's Water Department, as part of the leag... |
| Date: | 10 12 1938 |
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| Description: | International P-30 power unit owned by the Darlington water works. The unit pumped 500 gallons per minute. |
| 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: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Byron Jackson Deep-well Turbine in a shed. The turbine was powered by an International P-12 power unit. Next to the turbine are water outlets to an irrigat... |
| 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: | 08 28 1898 |
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| Description: | Syl playing with toy boats at a small pond at Reservoir Park. Other children and adults are around the pond which is on a hill. In the background below the... |
| Date: | 08 28 1898 |
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| Description: | Syl playing with other children at reservoir park near a small waterfall. Toy boats are in the pond. |
| Date: | 05 28 1899 |
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| Description: | View down gravel path towards Syl seated on a bench along the edge of a reservoir on a hill. There is a brick building, perhaps a pumphouse, built over the... |
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| Description: | View of the process of building a levee, including many horses and people. Caption reads: "Building the Levee near Port Gibson, Miss." |
| Date: | 04 24 1926 |
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| Description: | A child wearing a coat and hat is throwing rocks into an open cistern in what appears to be an alleyway between two buildings. The wooden cistern lid is ly... |
| Date: | 06 16 1952 |
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| Description: | Gail Habermann is shown in front of city hall using a new type of public drinking fountain called an 'angle jet' which replaces the old 'bubbler' type. The... |
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| Description: | Exterior of Fairmount Water Works with numerous columned buildings overlooking a river with boats moored to a small dock. Another boat is on the river in m... |
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