Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1977.578.0041Description
First city well about 1893 drilled on the north near Sugar Creek.
Update 2/2010: Sepia print. Snapshot mounted on tan matboard. Image of a wooden drilling derrick with wheels on either side and slat-wood structure at base. Man sitting in drivers seat of a buckboard with two horse hitch at right. Several other men seated and standing around. Prairie and hills in background.
Written on back in pencil: "First City Well about 1893 drilled North of tracks near Sugar Creek". "Tierney,Lynch,Reid." "Rasmusson became mayor Apr. 29, 1889" "March meeting 1892 bid for well" "City bonded for $35,000" "City Encorporated Apr 12, 1886."
Mounted on acidic matboard. Cut down from original size-edges rough and uneven. Back soiled. Badly yellowed, some fading. Image surface soiled, some scratches.Collection
Photograph Collection