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Woman Draws Water from Well
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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 woman is watching from the porch of a house in the background.
1920
International Harvester Company
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Woman Pumping Water from Farmhouse Well
Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse.
Woman Hauling Water
1920
A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house.
McCormick-Deering Engine
November 26, 1923
Motorized water pump powered by a 1.5 H.P. McCormick-Deering engine on the farm of Walter Stange(?).
Motorized Water Pump
1923
View of what appears to be a water pump powered by an International Harvester stationary engine on the farm of Albert Guenther.
Gas-Powered Water Pump
October 1923
A woman using a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to pump water into a metal bucket outside a building at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester Farm).
Woman Pumping Water from Farm Well
April 1923
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.
