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| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Andrew Amundsen's farm. A man with horses is at a well in the foreground. The well utilizes a well sweep. A barn, house and granary are on... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A unusual scene on an unidentified farmstead probably located near Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin. A family is posed in the yard of a frame house, as is usual... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Water pump hooked up to a Mogul stationary engine outside a small stone farm building. Water flows from pump into building through small piping running fro... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A child sits on a rotten wooden well covering while playing in the mud with a piece of metal and holding a can marked "Salted Pecans." An automobile is in ... |
| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A rotting and broken wooden well covering around a well pump near a field. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and wide-brimmed hat is emptying water from one pail into another beside a hand-cranked well. The photograph was taken on the John ... |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | A 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine powering a water pump outside of a building on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Farm structure with wood boards askew on the outer walls, and loose shingles on the roof. Underneath an open section is a hand-pump on a platform. Ducks ar... |
| Date: | 07 1901 |
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| Description: | Two men drilling a well in the Will's woods using a cable tool drilling rig powered by a team of two horses. One man is standing next to the drill holding ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Man with horse-drawn mower in yard of farm. There is a horse-drawn carriage on the drive in front of the large farmhouse. |
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