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Source Collection
Grover Edward McCarver memorial collection, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0466.001_Buildings-Municipal.040.jpg
Description
In 1903 the city of Memphis bought the private Artesian Water Company to form the Memphis Artesian Water Department, and with that purchase came the pumping station located at Auction and N. 5th St. The building was demolished to make room for an expansion of the St. Jude hospital complex.
Date Created
6-15-2021
Date
circa 1910
Recommended Citation
"City Artesian Water Department Pumping Station, Memphis, TN, c. 1910" (2021). Postcards. 6.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-mccarver1/6
Keywords
Postcards--Tennessee--Memphis, Postcards--20th century, Memphis (Tenn.)--photographs
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Archival Statement
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