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Reservoirs

Artificial or natural body of water used to collect and store water

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Reservoirs

4 images from works
  • The aqueduct at Cairo with a ground plan. Line engraving.
  • Storage reservoir at Claremont Square, Pentonville, under construction. Wood engraving, 1856.
  • South Gate House, New Reservoir, New York. Coloured lithograph by A. Brown & Co., 1862.
  • China during the Cultural Revolution: children and young people setting off to plant trees and dig reservoirs for the Chinese people. Colour lithograph, ca. 1970.

Works from the collections

6 works

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    South Gate House, New Reservoir, New York. Coloured lithograph by A. Brown & Co., 1862.

    | Date: 1862 | Reference: 18552i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    The aqueduct at Cairo with a ground plan. Line engraving.

    | Reference: 15786i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    China during the Cultural Revolution: children and young people setting off to plant trees and dig reservoirs for the Chinese people. Colour lithograph, ca. 1970.

    | Date: [1970?] | Reference: 997198i
    • Books

    Malaria control on impounded water / United States Public Health Service and Tennessee Valley Authority, Health and Safety Department.

    United States Public Health Service | Date: 1947
    • Books

    Donnye otlozheni︠︡ia dneprovskikh vodokhranilishch / B. I. Novikov ; A. I. Denisova, otvetstvennyĭ redaktor.

    Novikov, B. I. (Boris Illarionovich) | Date: 1985
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