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Water Tower
Chicago

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Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.

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Title
Water Tower
Description
Caption: "The Water Tower[.] The North Water Works are situated on Chicago Avenue near the lake shore. Here a stone tower, one hundred and sixty feet high, receives water from the lake forced by four engines having a pumping capacity of ninety-nine million gallons daily. The water is conveyed to the tower through a brick tunnel five feet in diameter which extends two miles out and under the lake surface."
Date
1906  
Type
Photograph  
File Name
chicago00lhne_raw_0031.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicago00lhne#page/28/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicago00lhne
Subject
  • Pumping stations  
  • Waterworks  
Coverage-Spatial
Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
1900-1909  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Rights Description
Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book Title
Chicago  
Author of the Book
L. H. Nelson Company  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitleWater Tower
DescriptionCaption: "The Water Tower[.] The North Water Works are situated on Chicago Avenue near the lake shore. Here a stone tower, one hundred and sixty feet high, receives water from the lake forced by four engines having a pumping capacity of ninety-nine million gallons daily. The water is conveyed to the tower through a brick tunnel five feet in diameter which extends two miles out and under the lake surface."
Date1906  
TypePhotograph  
File Namechicago00lhne_raw_0031.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicago00lhne#page/28/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicago00lhne
Subject
  • Pumping stations  
  • Waterworks  
Coverage-SpatialNear North Side (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1900-1909  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Rights DescriptionImages in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book TitleChicago  
Author of the BookL. H. Nelson Company  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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