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Kitchen of the 68th Street Water Intake Crib, 1930

 

 

 

Kitchen of the 68th Street Water Intake Crib, 1930

This is a 1930 view of the crew of the 68th Street water intake crib standing in their kitchen. The crews at the cribs lived and worked in close quarters two miles out into Lake Michigan.