Little Irrigation Experts. These Arabian children standing on the concrete embankment of an irrigation ditch are eagerly watching for the opening of the dikes which will permit there desert oasis to be flooded. French irrigation engineers are making many parts of the Algerian Sahara fertile oasis by means of wells sunk into the desert sands to tap underground streams
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office.
Group title: Children Algeria.
Used in: T.T. & C. Jr. May 1920.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
Temp note: Batch 40
Tags
Date
01/01/1920
Location
algeria
Source
Library of Congress
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