Satin badge: "The Completion of the Croton Aqueduct Celebrated, New York, October 14, 1842
Publisher Waterman Lilly Ormsby American
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This printed ribbon celebrates the completion of New York's Croton water system which provided nineteenth-century Manhattan residents with a much needed supply of healthy and abundant water, piped by gravity forty-one miles from Westchester. At top an image shows an aqueduct, New York's City Hall, and a fountain, with emblematic figures of a Native American and an engineer flanking a shield topped with an eagle. Text below details the history of the system's conception and construction between 1837 and 1843.
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