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International Power Unit

Date: 1949
Description: International power unit powers an irrigation system.
Postcard

Cochrane

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Cochrane and the surrounding landscape. There are houses, railroad tracks, distant fields, a pond and some irrigation canals. Caption read...
Book or Pamphlet

Mechanical Irrigation Catalog Cover

Date: 1911
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for mechanical irrigation equipment sold by International Harvester Company. Features an illustration of a mechanical irrig...
Print

Mechanical Irrigation Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester mechanical irrigation equipment. Features an illustration of two men standing next to a ...
Photograph

Irrigation Ditch

Date: 1917
Description: Irrigation ditch with a silo and farm buildings in the background. Original caption reads: "Union Pacific Silo Special Trip; irrigation ditch, Mrs. Carolin...
Photograph

Field Irrigation

Date: 
Description: View to the horizon of a irrigation sprinkler system in an open field.
Photograph

Irrigating a Field

Date: 
Description: View of sprinklers irrigating a field of beans(?). The field is lined by pine trees in the background.
Photograph

Cranberry Marshes

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin cranberry marshes with farmhouse in the background
Photograph

North Vietnamese Irrigation

Date: 1967
Description: Canal in a hamlet near Phat Diem, described by photographer David Schoenbrun as part of an extensive system of irrigation. On a path along the canal a man ...
Photograph

Dorothy Schoenbrun

Date: 1967
Description: Villagers near Phat Diem gathered to watch American Dorothy Schoenbrun sketching near an irrigation canal. Mrs. Schoenbrun was accompanying her husband, jo...
Photograph

Farmer Examining Cranberry Plant

Date: 1948
Description: Farmer examining cranberry plant near an irrigation ditch.
Photograph

Cranberry Fields and Irrigation

Date: 1948
Description: Cranberry fields with irrigation ditches.
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1983
Description: Cranberry marshes flooded and full of cranberries for the harvest. In the background is farm equipment, and men are removing the cranberries from the marsh...
Photograph

Cranberry Harvest

Date: 10 1983
Description: Men harvesting cranberries on flooded marshes with rakes.
Photograph

Cranberry Bog Irrigation

Date: 08 28 1922
Description: Irrigation pump on the Edward Hoffman, Upper Bog shortly after the completion of the pump installation.
Photograph

Reservoir Bulkhead Used for Cranberry Irrigation

Date: 09 25 1922
Description: The reservoir bulkhead and watershed for the Edward Hableman cranberry marshes. The reservoir was part of the irrigation system used to flood the cranberry...
Photograph

Flooded Cranberry Marsh

Date: 07 24 1922
Description: A weed killing flood at Robert Rezin's Cranberry Marsh.
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Widening Irrigation Canal

Date: 1962
Description: Three farmers remove large chunks of earth from the side of an irrigation canal in Vietnam to widen it. One man stands with a tool on the bank to dislodge ...
Photograph

Helicopters over Rice Paddies

Date: 1962
Description: Aerial view of four U.S. Marine helicopters banking over an expanse of rice paddies in Vietnam. Fluffy white clouds fill the sky.
Photograph

Army Helicopter over Countryside

Date: 06 1962
Description: Aerial view of old U.S. Army model H-21 helicopter, assigned to help Vietnamese forces fight the Viet Cong in the mountain region of Vietnam. The patchwork...

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