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Well, common source of water supply, Jackson, Ohio

Library of Congress · 1936 · Theodor Jung, for the Resettlement Administration

A rough plank well curb with a rope wound on a wooden windlass and an iron crank handle, standing open in grass beside a post.
From the archive · Library of Congress · 1936 Well, common source of water supply, Jackson, Ohio Theodor Jung, for the Resettlement Administration

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USF33-004115-M1 No known restrictions on publication. Archive record ↗ · Rights

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The other end of groundwater: a plank curb, a windlass and a rope. The government's own caption calls it the common source of water supply, which in 1936 it still was for a great many households.

Shows: What most people's water actually came out of, at the same moment engineers were sinking irrigation wells.

What this does not let you conclude: Whether it was safe. An open curb like this is the case the sanitary surveys of the period were written about. April 1936.

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  • Topic groundwater · plate
  • Topic quality · plate

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