The Mueller

      This fella stands between Shannon's yard and the neighbor to the South.
     I did the drawing while standing there myself under the shade of Shannon's Green Ash.
     I had previously posted the American Darling water hydrant- drawn in Florida but mfg. in Birmingham. Probably one of the earliest styles I remember.
     This drawing is a Mueller- cast in Albertville, Alabama.
     Later I'll post the Waterous-manufactured in St Paul Minnesota. It is the modern style, with a single casting for the top and the 3 outlets.
     Below you can see one of three or four pages of studies I did mostly from memory before doing this on location drawing.

     You could of course do endless research on the history of these babies, with all their iterations.
     This drawing was done in pencil on a 5 by 9 format.