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Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 5029-00001
Title: Windmill irrigation system exhibit, Jamestown (N.D.)
Date: 1896
Creator: DeGraff, William H.,--1852-1938
Summary: Poster with information about Windmill Irrigation System topped with bottle of artesian water and photograph of log house with family in front. Caption below bottle and photograph of man and woman in front of log house: Artesian Water Tower, ? Contents of above bottle: Artesian water from the Jamestown (ND) City. Artesian well procured by W. H. Barrett in winter of 1896 for N. D. S. ? Museum. Poster has text cut from Public Documents of the State of North Dakota, being the Annual and Biennial Reports of Various Public Officers and Institutions to the Governor and Legislative Assembly for the Fiscal Period Ending June 30, 1896, Volume 3 Public Document No. 29 Sixth Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Irrigation and Forestry from December 1, 1895 to December 1, 1896 and First Biennial Report of the State Fish Commissioner to the Governor of North Dakota pages 51-54, with the top quote found on page 4 of the introduction.
Red ID: PH_I_91953 Image ID: 48031 Image Notes: A5029-00001

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