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| 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. |
| Date: | 02 13 1915 |
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| Description: | African-American man and woman on the front porch of a rural home. The unidentified woman is retrieving water from a well, and the man, J.R. Dean, is sitti... |
| 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: | 05 1923 |
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| Description: | Miss Neary drawing a bucket of water from a well next to a farmhouse. The original caption reads: "Drawing water from well. Miss Neary posing. Mr. Hyde pho... |
| 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: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The Simeon Mills (farm) house located at 2709 Sommers Avenue. |
| 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: | 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: | 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. |
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