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Water-supply

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Aqueduct of the Ganges Canal, Roorkee, [India], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3157
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the aqueduct of the Ganges Canal in Roorkee, [India] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Artesian Bore, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/296
Scope and Contents

Photograph of an artesian bore that has a flow of 682,200 gallons per diem in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Artesian Bores and Boring in South Africa, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2611
Scope and Contents

Four photographs of people using boring equipment to dig for subterranean water sources in South Africa in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Baling Water, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/673
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of Indian men baling water in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Cost Fever Camp Water Supply, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1166
Scope and Contents

Photograph of three men and a horse in the grasslands of [South Africa?] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Dhenkanal Tank with Dalé Palms, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2633
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Dhenkanal tank, water-supply storage, with Dalé palms lining the bank in Orissa, India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Distributing Centre, Irrigation, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1165
Scope and Contents

Photograph of an irrigation distributing centre showing the water enclosure next to a field in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Double-Span Houses, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3010
Scope and Contents

Photograph of double-span houses, 40 ft. by 100 ft. that 'contain eight rows of hot-water pipes, patent ventilating gearing, wires, boiler and cold water supply and showing the whole structure being moved by one man' in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Letter from Richard Lambert to Joseph Black, 18 June 1770

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/33
Scope and Contents

Letter from Richard Lambert, Newcastle upon Tyne, to Joseph Black regarding civic water supplies.

Dates: 18 June 1770

Letter from Richard Lambert to Joseph Black, 27 August 1770

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/36-37
Scope and Contents

Letter from Richard Lambert, Newcastle upon Tyne, to Joseph Black regarding specimens of water, with draft of Black's report on them.

Dates: 27 August 1770