No. 3 intake pipes, Detroit water supply system

View of no. 3 intake pipes, Detroit water supply system. Printed on front: "11-15-34." Stamped on back: "Manning Bros., commercial photographers. 504-505 Lincoln Building. Corner State and Park Sts., Detroit, Mich." Typed on back: "No. 3 intake removed November 1934, contract RC-27, was constructed in 1890. Length no. 14, counting from outer end toward shore, as viewed from its outer, or southerly end. Distortion and lacerations are on upper surface of pipe, toward upstream or easterly side, and probably due to stranding of steamer Conneaut on August 10, 1932. Bolt lugs establish horizontal axis in its original position on river bottom."