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Proud Heritage 1886-1953
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Lawrence Experiment Station - 1886
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Lawrence Experiment Station - 1916
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Lawrence Experiment Station - 1953
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Hiram Francis Mills, 1836 - 1921
Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection:
HIRAM FRANCIS MILLS, C.E.
Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection:
WILLIAM RIPLEY NICHOLS
Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection:
ELLEN SWALLOW RICHARDS
Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection:
WILLIAM THOMSON SEDGWICK, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection:
THOMAS MESSINGER DROWN, M.D.
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1901. Original building during the flood of 1901. Mr. Gage in foreground. Notice water level mark on building.
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The original buildings shown after the flood of April 7, 1901.
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1891 – 1892. Earlier view of Filter Gallery. Galvanized iron tanks on right may have been used for sludge digestion studies. (Note tanks #10 and #19.)
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Mr. Couch, Attendant, Showing galvanized tanks used for early experimental studies. (Note “coke” and “coal” tanks in foreground. #116 being flooded by Mr. Couch.)
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PIONEERING RESEARCH IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection:
PIONEERING RESEARCH IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT
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1903. “New” building housing the bacteriological and chemical laboratories. Front view approaching station from Island Street.
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1903. Showing rear of station and the outside experimental units.
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1903. Showing incubator and ice-box.
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1903. Section of the Bacteriological Laboratory.
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1903. Rear view of the Lawrence Experiment Station showing filter house and some of the early intermittent sand filters. The mound in the right foreground shows the 1st covered intermittent sand filter constructed in 1890.
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Birthplace of American Sanitary Science and Hydraulics
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View of an early “sprinkling” filter
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Aerial view of the experimental station (circa 1953)
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View of an early trickling filter
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1903. Side and rear view of Station
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1904. Section of Laboratory devoted to chemical analysis of water and sewage.
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1905. Corner of the Bacteriological Laboratory
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Control of Typhoid Fever Epidemics
Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection:
Control of Typhoid Fever Epidemics
