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Water-supply

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

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from the Commissioners of Police, Leith to Joseph Black, 29 October 1784

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Identifier: Coll-16/II/214-215
Scope and Contents

Letter from the Commissioners of Police, Leith to Joseph Black, dated 29 October 1784. The letter is about asking advice from Black and Robison about the Leith water supply.

Dates: 29 October 1784

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Charles H. Jones, 31 October 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/74
Scope and Contents

Jones informs Ewart that Penicuik Town Council have authorised the alterations to the water supply pipe at Ewart's house, Craigybield, Penicuik.

Dates: 31 October 1912

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Charles H. Jones, 09 November 1912

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/76
Scope and Contents

Jones confirms that Penicuik Town Council has granted Ewart permission to connect a lead service pipe to the water main supplying the houses in the Bog Road with water on condition that Ewart maintains the pipe.

Dates: 09 November 1912

P. W. Thomsons Dam, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2939
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the P.W. Thomsons dam in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

[Picata [Picottah] Waterlift], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3145
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two men standing on top of a wooden structure, a Picata/Picottah water lift with three men in traditional Indian dress stand below with a house in the background in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Picata [Picottah] Waterlift, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3168
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Picata [Picottah] water lift in India in the late 19th or early 20th century. Two men stand a top a wooden structure while three men stand on the ground by its side.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Victorian Water Supply. National Irrigation Works, Goulburn District, Goulburn River Weir, [Australia], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2991
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a section of the Goulburn River weir showing the tunnel and tunnel-gate, flood-gate, flood-gate chamber and flood-gate, piers, bridging and gearing which was part of the Victorian Water Supply. National Irrigation Works, Goulburn District, Goulburn River Weir, [Australia] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Victorian Water Supply. View at Regulator and Offtake No. 2, National Irrigation Works, Goulburn District, Western Channel, [Australia], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2988
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the view at the regulator and offtake No. 2 that was 15 miles from the weir at the Victorian water supply, National Irrigation Works in the Goulburn district, Western channel in Victoria, Australia in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Victorian Water Supply. View of Channel, Relief Works and Flume No. 5, National Irrigation Works, Goulburn District, Western Channel, [Australia], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2989
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the view of the channel, the relief works and flume No. 5 that was 7 miles from the weir at the Victorian water supply, National Irrigation Works in the Goulburn district, Western channel in Victoria, Australia in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Water Carriers at the Public Fountain, Queretaro, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/683
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two people pushing water carriers at the public fountain while three women stand with jugs gathering water in Queretaro, Mexico in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s