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Farmhouse with Windmill Tower

Date: 1915
Description: View across fence toward a house, with a windmill in the side yard. Pumping machinery is under the windmill tower support. An outbuilding is in the backgro...
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Farmall Tractor Powering Irrigation

Date: 07 10 1928
Description: Two men are standing near immigration machinery powered by a Farmall tractor.
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Cornish Pumping Engine at Chapin Mine

Date: 
Description: View of a large piece of equipment. Caption reads: "Cornish Pumping Engine at Chapin Mine, 54 feet high." The Chapin Mine Cornish Pumping Engine was bu...
Manuscript

Page 1 from "A Few Glimpses of Stanley McCormick School"

Date: 02 08 1921
Description: Page from booklet with a photograph at top with caption that reads: "Stanley Hall and the Green Mountains — looking north from School Building." There is a...
Manuscript

Third Hostel Trip, Our Big Moments

Date: 07 01 1940
Description: Page of the log book of bike hostel trips taken by participants in the Neighborhood House summer program for girls, with four images from the trip and hand...
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Water Supply and Plumbing at Mexican Labor Settlement

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Two outhouses and another building are in a field, with a water pump in the left foreground. Caption reads: "This Press picture shows the water supply and ...
Postcard

Old Wade House; Smokehouse

Date: 
Description: Ektachrome postcard of a group of people standing near the smokehouse and water pump. Text on reverse reads: "Outside the summer kitchen stands the old ...
Photograph

Hardy Homestead

Date: 11 1956
Description: A former homestead in the autumn, framed by leafless trees. The cabin is constructed of squared logs with interlocking double-notch joints, chinked with a ...
Photograph

Water Pump Demonstration

Date: 11 10 1927
Description: A group of men at a water pump demonstration on the shoreline of a body of water. There is a truck on the left side.
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Horses Drinking Water from Trough

Date: 09 14 1925
Description: A man is standing between two horses who are drinking water from a trough filled by a pump. There is a body of water in the background.
Photograph

UD-16 — Industrial Power Units

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-16 — Industrial Power Units (misc.)." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph reads: "Superior Sand & Gravel Co., Hatfield, Inc. usin...
Photograph

UD-18A — Irrigation

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-18A — Irrigation." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Delta Securities Co., Inc., Raceland, La. Used with Worthin...
Photograph

TD-9 — Oil Field Pumping

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "TD-9 — Oil Field Pumping." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Minard Run Oil Co., Custer City, Pa. The tractor in th...
Photograph

U-2 — Oil Field Pumping

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "U-2 — Oil Field Pumping." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "International U-2 power units on world's most concentrated oil l...
Photograph

U-9 — Oil Field Pumping

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "U-9 — Oil Field Pumping." Where Taken: "SE." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Koch & Ellis, Balter Bldg., New Orleans, La. Used with ...
Photograph

UD-24 — Irrigation

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "UD-24 — Irrigation." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Carl Lane, Klamath Falls, Oregon who owns a 960-acre farm ne...
Photograph

UD-16 — Irrigation

Date: 1950
Description: A UD-16 sitting outdoors, with a storage tank on the right. There is a cornfield in the background. Subject: "UD-16 — Irrigation." Where Taken: "MidW." Inf...
Photograph

UD-14A — Irrigation

Date: 1950
Description: View towards two men posing outdoors near a UD-14A. Subject: "UD-14A — Irrigation." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by J.M. Jo...
Photograph

Pumping Station Switchboard

Date: 08 02 1931
Description: Switchboard at City of Madison water well no. 4 pumping station, 5 N. Randall Street.
Photograph

TD-9 — Oil Field Pumping

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "TD-9 — Oil Field Pumping." Where Taken: "NE." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Minard Run Oil Co., Custer City, Pa. The tractor in th...

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