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Long Beach Street Scene

Date: 1936
Description: Businesses and cars parked along a dusty city street with oil derricks in the background. At right is the Stephens & Company, distributors of power units i...
Photograph

Sewage Disposal Plant and Settling Basins

Date: 1916
Description: The sewage disposal plant showing the settling basins and colloidal. The main pumping station for the sewage was situated near the Chicago, Milwaukee and S...
Poster

McCormick-Deering Engine Advertising Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering engines. Includes photographic illustrations of an engine powering a water pump, washing machine, and cement mixer...
Photograph

Truax Hospital Heating Building

Date: 01 22 1943
Description: View of pumping units in the hospital heating building at Truax Army Air Field.
Photograph

Damaged Timlin Oil Pump House

Date: 08 17 1942
Description: Damaged pump house after an oil tank explosion at Timlin Lumber Company, 2702 University Avenue.
Photograph

City of Madison Water Well No. 4

Date: 02 25 1932
Description: Interior of pumphouse for City of Madison well no. 4, 5 N. Randall Avenue, showing the Electric Machinery Co. motor driven by Sullivan angle compound air c...
Book or Pamphlet

Lily Cream Separator Catalog

Date: 1916
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 ...
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Company Low Spread Manure Spreaders

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester Low Spread manure spreaders. Features an illustration of a man encouraging his horses to drink ...
Photograph

McCormick-Deering Engine

Date: 11 26 1923
Description: Motorized water pump powered by a 1.5 H.P. McCormick-Deering engine on the farm of Walter Stange(?).
Photograph

International Model 63 Oil Company Trucks

Date: 05 12 1927
Description: International Model 63 trucks parked on a dirt street. According to the original caption, the trucks were owned by C. Whitie Parsons, of Borger, Texas. The...
Photograph

Centrifugal Pump

Date: 09 15 1966
Description: 240P double piloted coupling. This coupling helps compile the centrifugal pump that was purchased by Foster Wheeler Corporation and later used by Commonwea...
Photograph

Dredge Pump Drive

Date: 01 05 1968
Description: A 27.000 x 24 vertical dredge pump drive is pictured that was later purchased by Ellicott Machine Corporation. Falk caption reads, "27.000 x 24 vertical dr...
Photograph

Dredge Pump Drive

Date: 06 12 1970
Description: This dredge pump drive was purchased by Ellicott. Falk caption reads, "Special (submersible) dredge pump drive. Quad input single output, ratio 1.8214:1. 1...
Poster

International Engines Advertising Poster

Date: 1924
Description: Chinese advertising poster for International engines. Features a color illustration of a stationary engine and two illustrations of engines powering machin...
Photograph

Pumping Station for Lake Forest at Arboretum

Date: 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Arboretum station was built when the site was a proposed site for a model city called Lake Forest, a scheme which fail...
Photograph

Operating Machinery Outdoors

Date: 1915
Description: A young boy in overalls operates a machine, perhaps a pump for water, underneath a windmill. There are overturned buckets in the foreground. An elderly man...
Photograph

MEC&MC Type "AN" Crane

Date: 
Description: Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company type "AN" crane at the Western Avenue Pumping Station with men working on various levels of the structure....
Photograph

T.C. Power Motor Car Company Truck

Date: 10 07 1925
Description: An International truck used by the T.C. Power Motor Company parked along the side of the road near the sidewalk outside the company office. There is a gaso...
Photograph

Hydraulic Pump

Date: 
Description: Hydraulic pump and pipes, most likely in a sewage treatment plant.
Photograph

Municipal Water Plant Pump House

Date: 03 24 1938
Description: Interior view of the municipal water plant pump house showing the auxiliary and emergency pump units, powered by an International P-30 power unit.

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