Water Tower
Chicago
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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 | Photographs |
| 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 |
| Repository | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Subject | |
| Coverage-Spatial | Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.) |
| Coverage-Temporal | 1900-1909 |
| Publisher | |
| Rights | 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 |
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