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Bill Dalley's collection in Portales, NM., details can be found online, search Google or Yahoo.
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Thanks to all for your insightful and helpful comments, even you graphicfunk, who still does not get it; 99.99% of all windmills in the U.S. had nothing to do with electricity but were used to pump water for cattle and irrigation throughout the farm and ranchlands.
This may remain a questionable entry because these are really generators with sophisticated circuits. However, it is an interesting photo and at least it represents the marriage of low tech to high tech. Have been corrected. These items are also employed as pumps. Nice image 8
Very bright and colorful. Perhaps ctop a bit to remove the tree in the left side? Seems a tad oversharpened too, but that could be the sun. There is some noise in the sky, check out neat image.