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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Artesian Well, located near the intersection of Wisconsin Street and South Minnesota Street (since renamed Wacouta). It was dubbed by some... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Two people stand in front of the Ella Hoes Neville well and historic marker, with two insets with close-up views of its architecture. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | View from corner of storefronts. Horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians are in the street. There is a water fountain with a cup in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View across grounds of the Winnebago County Asylum farm buildings, including a large barn with weather vanes on top of gable vents. In the foreground is a ... |
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| Description: | A small group sits under an ivy-covered arbor which covers what appears to be a fresh water well. The arbor is set in the woods and bears a horse-shoe shap... |
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| Description: | A view of a two-story resort home and yard. A small water well with a wooden roof is on the right. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of prisoners posing by the washing well, in a courtyard. Some of the men wear hats. Wooden doors of a building are on the right. Caption read... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Wallace Bruce and a young girl rest at Alpine Park, near DeFuniak Springs. He is sitting on a well, and the girl is standing beside him under a covered she... |
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| Description: | A well in a clearing with a wooden bucket hanging from a "well-sweep." |
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| Description: | A man with a small glass or cup stands next to an artesian-style well spouting water. Caption reads: "Artesian Well, Hallettsville, Texas." |
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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: | 1932 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A mother with her children retrieving water from a village well in Russia. |
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| Description: | Colorized elevated view of a Norwegian rural home. The buildings in the foreground are the home of Lars Haagenson. Across the Glomma River is the Aaseth Es... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| 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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| Description: | A barefoot child is holding two lambs close to him while sitting at the base of a well pump. A farm building is in the background. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd of people standing near an artesian well. Men wearing long coats and hats to protect them from the water are standing on and unde... |
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