This is a postcard showing workers using a steam powered trencher to lay a wooden water main on East Pearl Street in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. The location was a half block east of the Chase County Courthouse. The building in the background is George E. Capwell's photography studio. The postcard was addressed to Mr. Laurence Larkin in Pilchuck, Washington.
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Kansas Historical Society
Laying water mains in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas - 1