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| Date: | 11 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Robert Hoffman dropping coins into the wishing well at the Capitol Theatre for the Empty Stocking Club and the Kiddie Camp fund to "Help Bring Happiness to... |
| Date: | 03 23 1950 |
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| Description: | A large steel cylinder-shaped water reservoir stands above a drilled well with a tall construction crane behind it. The well under construction is Unit #9 ... |
| 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: | 09 04 1960 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of an abandoned, two-story farmhouse. A large tree is in the foreground. The base of a windmill is on the left, with a water pump stamped "Hu... |
| 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: | 10 1924 |
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| Description: | J.R. Hastie stands beside a chain and crank operated pump at the pioneer well, "a few miles below Portage." |
| 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: | 07 23 1898 |
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| Description: | Syl stands in front of a pavilion with a well or water pump in a park. A group of adults dressed fashionably stand in the pavilion while drinking water fro... |
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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. |
| 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: | 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... |
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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... |
| 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: | 05 27 1952 |
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| Description: | Garden show and tea at which the West Side Garden club entertained other garden clubs of the Madison area. Mrs. T.M. Gordon, left, Ruth E. (Mrs. Arthur) T... |
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| Description: | A well in a clearing with a wooden bucket hanging from a "well-sweep." |
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