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S06.07.019Description
Lifting a drill rig for positionig under the Detroit-Superior Bridge the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The image is undated, but was probably taken during the 1950s.
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Information on rig branded with J.L. Harper & Company for this work project in slides S06.07.020 & S06.07.022, see:
From page 11 of the November/December 1971 issue of National Ground Water Association publication archives (formerly Ground Water OnLine) at <a href="http://info.ngwa.org/GWOL/pdf/712905419.pdf" rel="noreferrer nofollow">info.ngwa.org/GWOL/pdf/712905419.pdf</a>: John L. (Jack) Harper...after finishing his studies in mining engineering at Columbia University, he went into the core drilling business in New Jersey and Kentucky. In 1936, he entered the water-well drilling field as an adjunct to his diamond drilling for mining operations. This firm was called J.L. Harper & Company and was headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Harper’s successful business had laboratory facilities for soil mechanics work and operated in 6 states, Canada, the Caribbean and the Middle East. During World War II, Mr. Harper, in addition to managing his drilling company in Cleveland, worked on ground-water problems in several overseas areas. …J.L. Harper & Company of Cleveland [was] sold…in 1964.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Men helping suspend drilling vehicle into air for repositioning. Under Detroit-Superior Bridge at Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio.