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| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a posed scene showing a woman milking a cow as two other women stand waiting at an open barn door. On the left a man at a hand-pump is behin... |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| 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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| Description: | Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 05 20 1924 |
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| Description: | Country school children playing "Baby in the Hole." There is a hand-pump in the background under trees. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 08 02 1931 |
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| Description: | Switchboard at City of Madison water well no. 4 pumping station, 5 N. Randall Street. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Man pumping water from a well with a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A family is grouped around a table, including a man with a top hat, two dolls on the ground between two small girls and a woman holding a closed fan. Behin... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | People standing in front of a house with a false storefront. A man is standing on the porch by a hand-pump. There is a woodpile in the yard behind a woman ... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | A well in a clearing with a wooden bucket hanging from a "well-sweep." |
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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: | 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... |
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