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Photographer: Larry Gertner
Taken: October 10, 2011
Caption: Inset
Additional Description: African American workers position hollowed-out pine log pipes in a trench along Broad Street. The 25-mile pipeline formed the city’s first municipal water system in the early 1800s. laborers tore up the cobblestone streets, dug trenches, laid and joined the pipe sections, and filled in the trenches. Pay was one dollar a day; enslaved workers’ wages went to their owners.
Submitted: February 15, 2019, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p464243
File Size: 0.020 Megabytes

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