Irrigation Collection

A Ditch, c.1850. Creator: Lorenz Frolich
A Ditch, c.1850

View of the Coffee Plantation Marienbosch in Surinam, 1829-1876. Creator: Willem de Klerk
View of the Coffee Plantation Marienbosch in Surinam, 1829-1876. Other Title(s): View of the Meerzorg Coffee Plantation on the Taparoepi Canal in Surinam?

Man in irrigated orchard, probably Pontiac, Ill. between 1900 and 1910. Creator: Unknown
Man in irrigated orchard, probably Pontiac, Ill. between 1900 and 1910

Bureau of Reclamation - Truckee-Carson Project, Nevada; Canal Carrying Truckee River To... 1912
Bureau of Reclamation - Truckee-Carson Project, Nevada; Canal Carrying Truckee River To Reservoir, 1912

Roosevelt Dam, Arizona - Salt River Project of Bureau of Reclamation, Dedication Scene, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Roosevelt Dam, Arizona - Salt River Project of Bureau of Reclamation, Dedication Scene, 1912. Dam named after President Theodore Roosevelt, serving mainly for irrigation, water supply

'L'elevation des eaux du Nil pour l'irrigation; Le Nord-Est Africain, 1914. From "Grande Geographie Bong Illustree", 1914

Minidoka Project - U.S. Reclamation Bureau. Minidoka Desert On Year After Irrigation By Government, 1912. The Minidoka Project was a series of public works implemented in order to control the flow of

L'horticulture : Esquisse pour l'école de la rue Château-Landon, 10ème arrondissement... c.1881
L'horticulture : Esquisse pour l'ecole de la rue Chateau-Landon, 10eme arrondissement de Paris, c.1881. Horticulture

Field worker irrigating alfalfa and barley fields, Near Indio, Coachella Valley, California, 1937
Field worker irrigating alfalfa and barley fields. The field produces eleven cuttings of alfalfa a year, yields nine to ten tons to the acre; sold for twenty-two dollars per ton in 1936

Refugees camped by the roadside beside an irrigated pea field, nine miles from Calipatria, CA, 1937
Forty families of drought and depression refugees camped by the roadside beside an irrigated pea field. A freeze which destroyed the pea crop threw practically every family in this camp on emergency

Irrigation ditch alongside the road, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Irrigation ditch alongside the road. Imperial Valley, California

Main street of town showing irrigation ditch, Escalante, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Main street of town. Shows irrigation ditch. Escalante, Utah

Irrigator in brushed and capped cantaloupe field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Irrigator in brushed and capped cantaloupe field. Imperial Valley, California

Irrigation ditch along the road, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Irrigation ditch along the road. Imperial Valley, California

Laguna Dam, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Laguna Dam. The All American Canal, when completed, will extend desert land to cultivation by irrigation in the southwestern United States

Date palms, Coachella Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Date palms. Coachella Valley, California

Aftermath of irrigation boom, Nyland, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Aftermath of irrigation boom and subsequent collapse of cotton in California, 1921. Nyland, California

Irrigated fields of Acala cotton seventy miles from Phoenix, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Irrigated fields of Acala cotton seventy miles from Phoenix, Arizona

Irrigated field of cotton seventy miles from Phoenix, Arizona, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Irrigated field of cotton seventy miles from Phoenix, Arizona

Pumping plant for irrigation powered by a natural gas engine, Tulare County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This pumping plant for irrigation is powered by a natural gas engine which operates at about half the cost of electricity. Tulare County, California

Mail boxes and irrigation gates, Imperial Valley, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Mail boxes and irrigation gates. Imperial Valley, California

Aftermath of irrigation boom and subsequent collapse of cotton, Nyland, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Aftermath of irrigation boom and subsequent collapse of cotton in California, 1921. Nyland, California

Irrigation pump on edge of field, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Irrigation pump on edge of field. Electric power typical of San Joaquin Valley farming. Tulare County, California

Irrigation pump on edge of field, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Irrigation pump on edge of field. Electric power typical of San Joaquin Valley farming. California

Poem by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, from the series "One Hundred Poems Explained... c. 1835/36. Creator: Hokusai
Poem by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, from the series "One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)", Japan, c. 1835/36

Two Men Digging, 1855–56. Creator: Jean Francois Millet
Two Men Digging, 1855-56

Two Men Digging, 1855–56. Creator: Jean Francois Millet
Two Men Digging, 1855-56

Two Men Digging, 1855–56. Creator: Jean Francois Millet
Two Men Digging, 1855-56

Peasant Digging, 1863. Creator: Jean Francois Millet
Peasant Digging, 1863

Two Men Digging, 1855–56. Creator: Jean Francois Millet
Two Men Digging, 1855-56

Two Men Digging, 1855–56. Creator: Jean Francois Millet
Two Men Digging, 1855-56

The Man Leaning on His Spade, c. 1847. Creator: Jean Francois Millet
The Man Leaning on His Spade, c. 1847

Peasant Digging, 1863. Creator: Jean Francois Millet
Peasant Digging, 1863

Irrigation wheel at U.S. Telegraph Station, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Hunt, Phinney S
Irrigation wheel at U.S. Telegraph Station, between c1900 and c1930

By the canal-Maricopa, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
By the canal-Maricopa, c1907. Photograph shows a Maricopa woman sitting on the bank of a canal, holding a clay pot

Irrigation canal (aryk) in the Murgab Estate, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Irrigation canal (aryk) in the Murgab Estate, [Central Asia?], between 1905 and 1915. Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944)

Lifting water water from the Nile using a shadouf, Nag Hammadi, Egypt, 1898. Creator
Raising water from the Nile, Nag Hammadi, Egypt, 1898. Fellaheen lifting water from the River Nile for irrigation using a shadouf. Wasser [?] Fellaheen bei Nagh-Aamadi

The Fens Drained, 1662, (1903). Artist: William Dugdale
The Fens Drained, 1662, (1903). From Social England, Volume IV, edited by H.D. Traill, D.C.L. and J. S. Mann, M.A. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1903]

Washing wheat-San Juan, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Washing wheat-San Juan, c1905. Two San Juan Indians dipping baskets of wheat into an acequia, or irrigation ditch, to dissolve dirt and to float away debris from the wheat kernels

Amir Khalid [right] and Amir Faisal, sons of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, 1943. Creator: John Rous
Amir Khalid [right] and Amir Faisal, sons of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Their Royal Highnesses recently concluded an extensive visit in the United States as guests of the government

Cherry orchards and irrigation ditch, Emmett, Idaho, 1941. Creator: Russell Lee
Cherry orchards and irrigation ditch, Emmett, Idaho

Cherry orchards, farm lands and irrigation ditch at Emmett, Idaho, 1941. Creator: Russell Lee
Cherry orchards, farm lands and irrigation ditch at Emmett, Idaho

Day laborers picking string beans among the poles... Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton, N.J. 1942. Creator: John Collier
Day laborers (from nearby towns or migrant) picking string beans among the poles for overhead irrigation, Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton, N.J

Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, northeast of Elma, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Western Washington, Grays Harbor County, northeast of Elma. Hand irrigation on small rented subsistence farm. Family have been on place for one year

Possibly: Hop yard, shows poles, wires, irrigation ditch and hop... Yakima Valley, Washington
[Untitled, possibly related to: Washington, Yakima Valley. Hop yard, shows poles, wires, irrigation ditch and hop vine, three weeks before picking time]

Roza Irrigation Canal, Yakima County, Washington, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Washington, Yakima County, Roza Irrigation Canal. Sides concrete, lined by machine. The project, when complete in 1945, will open 72, 000 acres to cultivation in East Yakima and West Benton Counties

Beanfield showing irrigation, near West Stayton, Marion County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Beanfield showing irrigation

Possibly: Beanfield showing irrigation, near West Stayton, Marion County, Oregon, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
[Untitled, possibly related to: Oregon, Marion County, near West Stayton. Beanfield showing irrigation

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