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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: | 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: | 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: | 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. |
| 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... |
| 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. |
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