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Main Street sewer construction in Biddeford, Maine, circa 1914. Looking toward the Thatcher Hotel and Washington Street. Photographer: Robert Henry Gay. Source: Used with permission of the McArthur Public Library photo collection. All rights reserved. Image 7430 of the Maine Memory Network. |
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Main street sewer construction in Biddeford, Maine, circa 1914. Looking west, toward Elm. Photographer: Robert Henry Gay. Source: Used with permission of the McArthur Public Library photo collection. All rights reserved. Image 7431 of the Maine Memory Network. |
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Main Street sewer construction in Biddeford, Maine, circa 1914. This and the following two photographs show construction combining a brick invert with cast-in-place concrete. Photographer: Robert Henry Gay. Source: Used with permission of the McArthur Public Library photo collection. All rights reserved. Image 7429 of the Maine Memory Network. |
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Main street sewer construction in Biddeford, Maine, circa 1914. Possibly Summer Street. Photographer: Robert Henry Gay. Source: Used with permission of the McArthur Public Library photo collection. All rights reserved. Image 7442 of the Maine Memory Network. |
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Main street sewer construction in Biddeford, Maine, circa 1914. Close-up of oval sewer. Sewer runs from White's Wharf up Main to Alfred and up to Summer Street. Photographer: Robert Henry Gay. Source: Used with permission of the McArthur Public Library photo collection. All rights reserved. Image 7443 of the Maine Memory Network. |
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Unloading 48-inch cast iron pipe from 5-ton motor truck.
Winches are operated from the engine. 1914.
Source: Cast Iron Pipe, Standard Specifications Dimensions and Weights (Burlington, New Jersey: United States Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Co., 1914). |
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Motor truck and trailer carrying pieces of cast iron pipe,
1914.
Source: Cast Iron Pipe, Standard Specifications Dimensions and Weights (Burlington, New Jersey: United States Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Co., 1914). |
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A 5-foot riveted steel sewer for temporary use in connection
with New York subway work. Photo dated 11-16-1914.
Source: J. F. Springer, "Iron and Steel Sewer Pipe," Municipal Engineering, Volume LI, No. 3 (September 1916), p. 87. |
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Inverted sewer siphons of cast iron used in carrying sewers
under the subway in New York subway construction. Photo dated 11-27-1915.
Source: J. F. Springer, "Iron and Steel Sewer Pipe," Municipal Engineering, Volume LI, No. 3 (September 1916), p. 88. |
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Outfall sewer construction with steam shovel, Utah, 1915-1916.
Source: Utah State Historical Society, Photo no. C-601 #1716. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved. |