Milwaukee water works. Engine house, water tower & reservoir – Historic Reproduction
![Milwaukee water works. Engine house, water tower & reservoir, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c8/c8f0653770ca-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Milwaukee water works. Engine house, water tower & reservoir. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Milwaukee water works. Engine house, water tower & reservoir
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The print shows the Milwaukee water works, with its engine house, water tower, and reservoir grouped together as one pumping and storage complex. Such installations were central to American cities in the late 1800s, when municipal systems replaced private wells and cisterns and needed machinery to lift water and towers or reservoirs to hold it under steady pressure. The shelflist card links the print to the American Oleograph Company, a Milwaukee firm known for colored lithographs, though the card records no date, so the exact year of its making is unconfirmed.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on shelflist card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: American Oleograph Co. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,140 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109870 |
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