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Man on pipe in trench, Avenue "J"

Man on pipe in trench, Avenue "J"


Title	Man on pipe in trench, Avenue "J"
Description	Photograph from a negative original taken at Avenue J and the 96th Street in Chicago during the construction of sewers in 1929.
Neighborhood/Street	Avenue J (Chicago, Ill.) Ninety-sixth Street (Chicago, Ill.) South Deering (Chicago, Ill.)
Subject.TGM1	Streets Construction Construction workers Construction equipment Pipes (Conduits) Houses Sewers Excavation Dwellings
Subject.LCSH	Excavation -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Photographs Avenue J (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- 20th century -- Photographs Construction workers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Photographs Drainage pipes -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Photographs Underground construction -- Photographs Sanitary engineering -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Photographs Sewerage -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Design and construction -- History -- 20th century -- Photographs South Deering (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- 20th century -- Photographs
Subject.AAT	avenues building sites excavations (earthworks) trenches
Photographer/Artist	Westlund, E. G.
Contributors	Chicago (Ill.). Dept. of Water Management
Date of original	1929-05-22
Time period	1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929
Repository Number	PHOTOGRAPH CDWM-007;
Repository Name	City of Chicago, Department of Water Management
Type	Image
Original format	Photographic prints
Format	image/jpeg;
Genre	Negatives Progress photographs
Original size	3.5 x 5.3 in.
Subject.LOCAL	construction

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