Hot Water for Near Zero Weather--Pretty 17-year-old high school senior, Nancy Jean Chrisman of Creve Coeur, five miles south of Peoria, Ill., uses a tea kettle of boiling water to thaw out the water pump at her home in near zero weather.

Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Hot Water for Near Zero Weather--Pretty 17-year-old high school senior, Nancy Jean Chrisman of Creve Coeur, five miles south of Peoria, Ill., uses a tea kettle of boiling water to thaw out the water pump at her home in near zero weather.

Associated Press · [ca. January 1950]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Weather: Cold: Wire Photos

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