Just Another Day on the Job in 1890

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“You kids these days don’t know what it means to streamgage! In my day, we used to sit in rickety wood boxes, sweating all day long in the hot sun and wearing our best suits!” 

Measuring the velocity of streams in a cable suspended stream-gaging car at Arkansas River near Canyon City, Colorado. The photograph was taken in 1890.

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