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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An International stationary engine powers a water pump outside a brick building, possibly a school. There is a cat on the left near the pump. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of an old wooden well. Tulips line the sidewalk near the well. Residential houses, trees and yards are in the background. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View of the front of the high school. The grounds feature a hand-pump water well and a flag post. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the post office. On the sidewalk, a man and woman stand and three men sit on the steps. A black car is parked at the curb. A hand-powered pump ... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Exterior of a schoolhouse with a hand-pump water well and flagpole in front. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Three Algerian children standing together near their home. Two of them are holding hands. Behind them is a well, and piles of boxes in an alcove. Beside th... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Log Cabin Lodge on Lake Millicent, a one-story log cabin with stone foundation with two doors on the right. There is a water pump outside the c... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Buildings near International Harvester's Saltillo Works in Mexico. A donkey stands at left, and a tractor is parked in front of a building near a large, st... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A man pumps water from an old wooden pump into a tin cup. This photo was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to illustrat... |
| Date: | 11 23 1915 |
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| Description: | Boy retrieves water from a school well. Original caption reads: "This Old fashioned well, at Sheffield School near Union City, Tenn. is typical of the enti... |
| 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: | 01 1983 |
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| Description: | "The wishing well on the Philip and Marilyn Zingsheim property takes on a different aura with new fallen snow on a winter evening." |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View down unpaved road of a filling station. Along the side of the station on the left is a hand-pump, and a large tank lying on its side. Three buildings ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Three men and a woman pose with a pole of a stringer of fish. One of the men holds his pet dog. Behind them on the left is a bathtub, hand-pump for water, ... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a man, and woman holding a small girl, posing sitting. They are surrounded by three girls and three boys standing near a well. |
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| Description: | Three people are standing in front of a frame house which is at the foot of a small tree-covered hill. On the left a man is standing with a team of two hor... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of people posing in the yard in front of a frame house, with a porch and a hand-pump. There are three women sitting on the left, and a small... |
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| Description: | View across lawn of group posing in front of a log house, which has two large windows on either side of the open door. A man and woman are sitting in chair... |
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| Description: | Group posing in yard with log buildings in the background. In the center a woman is sitting, and a young girl and small boy are standing next to her. In th... |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Lillian Simonson, Altrusa Club member and Marquette School principal, is shown giving a preview of a wishing well to youths Jerry Bailey and Janet Dahl. |
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