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Brick-lined 1920-1940s era "Cess Pit"

View of Construction Site Showing Brick Sewer System. Men are Partially visible behind wood reinforcement beams.

View of construction site showing workers, heavy equipment, houses and trees.

View of street construction showing an operator maneuver dirt scoop to dump truck, from which driver emerges. A man near telephone pole at right looks on. Houses are visible in the background.

Broadside advertising a sanitation system, showing two men operating a sanitation pump on a street; text below explains use of system, advantages, etc.; New Orleans dealer is New Orleans Sanitary Excavating Company, 153 Common Street.

View of excavated ditch shored with timbers. Shows construction vehicles, a dirt scoop, worker and houses in the background.

View of construction site showing men pushing wheelbarrows through excavated area. Shows fenced houses in the background.

Courtyard with cistern, New Orleans

Cisterns Made and Repaired; Largest Cistern and Tank Factory in the South

First Sewer Connection, October 31, 1906