University of Illinois CONTENTdm Collection : Item Viewer

back to results : previous : next

Water Tower


Title	Water Tower
Description	Caption: "The Water Tower[.] The North Water Works are situated on Chicago Avenue near the lake shore. Here a stone tower, one hundred and sixty feet high, receives water from the lake forced by four engines having a pumping capacity of ninety-nine million gallons daily. The water is conveyed to the tower through a brick tunnel five feet in diameter which extends two miles out and under the lake surface."
Date	1906
Type	Photographs
Identifier	chicago00lhne_raw_0031.jp2
Source	http://www.archive.org/stream/chicago00lhne#page/28/mode/2up
Physical Location	University of Illinois at Chicago
Format	image/jp2
Subject Name	Chicago Water Tower
Subject	Waterworks Pumping stations
Coverage-Spatial	Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
Date of Content	1900-1909
Publisher	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois at Chicago
Rights	Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Sub-Collection	Buildings
Collection	Picture Chicago
Book Title	Chicago
Author of the Book	L. H. Nelson Company
Link to the Full-Text	http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicago00lhne