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Company Ditch, Near intersection of Lance Hill & Mullinex Roads, Cheney, Spokane County, WA

Company Ditch, Near intersection of Lance Hill & Mullinex Roads, Chene...

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Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Pumping Plant No. 3, South of Interstate 8, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Pumping Plant No. 3, South of Inters...

Significance: The Wellton-Mohawk Canal was the first of several main canals constructed in association with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project. Engineers designed the gravity-fed system to carry wa... More

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Pumping Plant No. 3, South of Interstate 8, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Pumping Plant No. 3, South of Inters...

Significance: The Wellton-Mohawk Canal was the first of several main canals constructed in association with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project. Engineers designed the gravity-fed system to carry wa... More

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Pumping Plant No. 3, South of Interstate 8, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Pumping Plant No. 3, South of Inters...

Significance: The Wellton-Mohawk Canal was the first of several main canals constructed in association with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project. Engineers designed the gravity-fed system to carry wa... More

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Pumping Plant No. 3, South of Interstate 8, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Pumping Plant No. 3, South of Inters...

Significance: The Wellton-Mohawk Canal was the first of several main canals constructed in association with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project. Engineers designed the gravity-fed system to carry wa... More

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon County, ID

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon Count...

Significance: The Deer Flat Embankments, which impound Lake Lowell, are significant as the first large storage feature built by the U.S. Reclamation Service on the Boise Project, one of the largest of the early... More

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon County, ID

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon Count...

Significance: The Deer Flat Embankments, which impound Lake Lowell, are significant as the first large storage feature built by the U.S. Reclamation Service on the Boise Project, one of the largest of the early... More

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon County, ID

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon Count...

Significance: The Deer Flat Embankments, which impound Lake Lowell, are significant as the first large storage feature built by the U.S. Reclamation Service on the Boise Project, one of the largest of the early... More

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon County, ID

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon Count...

Significance: The Deer Flat Embankments, which impound Lake Lowell, are significant as the first large storage feature built by the U.S. Reclamation Service on the Boise Project, one of the largest of the early... More

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon County, ID

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon Count...

Significance: The Deer Flat Embankments, which impound Lake Lowell, are significant as the first large storage feature built by the U.S. Reclamation Service on the Boise Project, one of the largest of the early... More

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon County, ID

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon Count...

Significance: The Deer Flat Embankments, which impound Lake Lowell, are significant as the first large storage feature built by the U.S. Reclamation Service on the Boise Project, one of the largest of the early... More

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon County, ID

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon Count...

Significance: The Deer Flat Embankments, which impound Lake Lowell, are significant as the first large storage feature built by the U.S. Reclamation Service on the Boise Project, one of the largest of the early... More

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon County, ID

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon Count...

Significance: The Deer Flat Embankments, which impound Lake Lowell, are significant as the first large storage feature built by the U.S. Reclamation Service on the Boise Project, one of the largest of the early... More

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon County, ID

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon Count...

Significance: The Deer Flat Embankments, which impound Lake Lowell, are significant as the first large storage feature built by the U.S. Reclamation Service on the Boise Project, one of the largest of the early... More

Zion National Park Irrigation System, Springdale Canal, Springdale, Washington County, UT

Zion National Park Irrigation System, Springdale Canal, Springdale, Wa...

Survey number: HAER UT-38-D Public domain photograph - historical image of Utah, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Zion National Park Irrigation System, Springdale Canal, Springdale, Washington County, UT

Zion National Park Irrigation System, Springdale Canal, Springdale, Wa...

Survey number: HAER UT-38-D Public domain photograph - historical image of Utah, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gage Irrigation Canal, Running from Santa Ana River to Arlington Heights, Riverside, Riverside County, CA

Gage Irrigation Canal, Running from Santa Ana River to Arlington Heigh...

Significance: The Gage Irrigation Canal was instrumental in the development of citrus production and the settlement of the Riverside area. At the time of its completion, the canal was the most ambitious irriga... More

Gage Irrigation Canal, Running from Santa Ana River to Arlington Heights, Riverside, Riverside County, CA

Gage Irrigation Canal, Running from Santa Ana River to Arlington Heigh...

Significance: The Gage Irrigation Canal was instrumental in the development of citrus production and the settlement of the Riverside area. At the time of its completion, the canal was the most ambitious irriga... More

Gage Irrigation Canal, Running from Santa Ana River to Arlington Heights, Riverside, Riverside County, CA

Gage Irrigation Canal, Running from Santa Ana River to Arlington Heigh...

Significance: The Gage Irrigation Canal was instrumental in the development of citrus production and the settlement of the Riverside area. At the time of its completion, the canal was the most ambitious irriga... More

Pilot Butte Canal, Bend, Deschutes County, OR

Pilot Butte Canal, Bend, Deschutes County, OR

Significance: Construction and completion of the canal in 1904 introduced irrigation to Central Oregon and contributed to the settlement, growth and creation of Bend. Although several other private irrigation c... More

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Main Canal, 4 miles North to 12 miles Southeast of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, Eddy County, NM

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Main Canal, 4 miles North to 12 miles So...

Significance: The Carlsbad Irrigation District is nationally significant as an excellent surviving representation of a large turn-of-the-century reclamation system. The District includes significant engineerin... More

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Main Canal, 4 miles North to 12 miles Southeast of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, Eddy County, NM

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Main Canal, 4 miles North to 12 miles So...

Significance: The Carlsbad Irrigation District is nationally significant as an excellent surviving representation of a large turn-of-the-century reclamation system. The District includes significant engineerin... More

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Main Canal, 4 miles North to 12 miles Southeast of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, Eddy County, NM

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Main Canal, 4 miles North to 12 miles So...

Significance: The Carlsbad Irrigation District is nationally significant as an excellent surviving representation of a large turn-of-the-century reclamation system. The District includes significant engineerin... More

Tumalo Irrigation District, Tumalo Project, West of Deschutes River, Tumalo, Deschutes County, OR

Tumalo Irrigation District, Tumalo Project, West of Deschutes River, T...

Significance: Tumalo Project structures and features are significant for their association with a troubled irrigation system built during the early twentieth century in the Upper Deschutes River Basin. For most... More

Tumalo Irrigation District, Tumalo Project, West of Deschutes River, Tumalo, Deschutes County, OR

Tumalo Irrigation District, Tumalo Project, West of Deschutes River, T...

Significance: Tumalo Project structures and features are significant for their association with a troubled irrigation system built during the early twentieth century in the Upper Deschutes River Basin. For most... More

Kachess Dam, Kachess River, 1.5 miles north of Interstate 90, Easton, Kittitas County, WA

Kachess Dam, Kachess River, 1.5 miles north of Interstate 90, Easton, ...

Significance: The dam and reservoir provide nearly a quarter of the water stored for the Yakima Project, which irrigates the Yakima Valley in central Washington. The valley, while blessed with a greater natural... More

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Avalon Dam, On Pecos River, 4 miles North of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, Eddy County, NM

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Avalon Dam, On Pecos River, 4 miles Nort...

Significance: Avalon Dam serves as a diversion structure feeding the Carlsbad Irrigation District's canal network; the reservoir supplements the storage capacity of McMillan Dam, the system's main storage reser... More

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Avalon Dam, On Pecos River, 4 miles North of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, Eddy County, NM

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Avalon Dam, On Pecos River, 4 miles Nort...

Significance: Avalon Dam serves as a diversion structure feeding the Carlsbad Irrigation District's canal network; the reservoir supplements the storage capacity of McMillan Dam, the system's main storage reser... More

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Avalon Dam, On Pecos River, 4 miles North of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, Eddy County, NM

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Avalon Dam, On Pecos River, 4 miles Nort...

Significance: Avalon Dam serves as a diversion structure feeding the Carlsbad Irrigation District's canal network; the reservoir supplements the storage capacity of McMillan Dam, the system's main storage reser... More

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Avalon Dam, On Pecos River, 4 miles North of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, Eddy County, NM

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Avalon Dam, On Pecos River, 4 miles Nort...

Significance: Avalon Dam serves as a diversion structure feeding the Carlsbad Irrigation District's canal network; the reservoir supplements the storage capacity of McMillan Dam, the system's main storage reser... More

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Avalon Dam, On Pecos River, 4 miles North of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, Eddy County, NM

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Avalon Dam, On Pecos River, 4 miles Nort...

Significance: Avalon Dam serves as a diversion structure feeding the Carlsbad Irrigation District's canal network; the reservoir supplements the storage capacity of McMillan Dam, the system's main storage reser... More

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Avalon Dam, On Pecos River, 4 miles North of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, Eddy County, NM

Carlsbad Irrigation District, Avalon Dam, On Pecos River, 4 miles Nort...

Significance: Avalon Dam serves as a diversion structure feeding the Carlsbad Irrigation District's canal network; the reservoir supplements the storage capacity of McMillan Dam, the system's main storage reser... More

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam & Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Across Columbia River, Southeast of Town of Grand Coulee, Grand Coulee, Grant County, WA

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam & Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake,...

The Columbia Basin Project is located in 5 counties: Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, and Stevens Significance: At the time of construction, Grand Coulee Dam was the most massive structure ever built: construct... More

Grand Valley Diversion Dam, Half a mile north of intersection of I-70 & Colorado State Route 65, Cameo, Mesa County, CO

Grand Valley Diversion Dam, Half a mile north of intersection of I-70 ...

Significance: Constructed between 1913 and 1916, the dam is the key structure of the Bureau of Reclamation's Grand Valley Project, which provides water to 42,000 acres of semi-arid land. At the time of its comp... More

Grand Valley Diversion Dam, Half a mile north of intersection of I-70 & Colorado State Route 65, Cameo, Mesa County, CO

Grand Valley Diversion Dam, Half a mile north of intersection of I-70 ...

Significance: Constructed between 1913 and 1916, the dam is the key structure of the Bureau of Reclamation's Grand Valley Project, which provides water to 42,000 acres of semi-arid land. At the time of its comp... More

Grand Valley Diversion Dam, Half a mile north of intersection of I-70 & Colorado State Route 65, Cameo, Mesa County, CO

Grand Valley Diversion Dam, Half a mile north of intersection of I-70 ...

Significance: Constructed between 1913 and 1916, the dam is the key structure of the Bureau of Reclamation's Grand Valley Project, which provides water to 42,000 acres of semi-arid land. At the time of its comp... More

Boise Project, Boise River Diversion Dam, Across Boise River, Boise, Ada County, ID

Boise Project, Boise River Diversion Dam, Across Boise River, Boise, A...

Significance: The Boise Diversion Dam and Powerplant are important components in the Boise Project, a Bureau of Reclamation effort to irrigate the Boise and Payette River valleys in Idaho. The diversion dam, co... More

Boise Project, Boise River Diversion Dam, Across Boise River, Boise, Ada County, ID

Boise Project, Boise River Diversion Dam, Across Boise River, Boise, A...

Significance: The Boise Diversion Dam and Powerplant are important components in the Boise Project, a Bureau of Reclamation effort to irrigate the Boise and Payette River valleys in Idaho. The diversion dam, co... More

Boise Project, Boise River Diversion Dam, Across Boise River, Boise, Ada County, ID

Boise Project, Boise River Diversion Dam, Across Boise River, Boise, A...

Significance: The Boise Diversion Dam and Powerplant are important components in the Boise Project, a Bureau of Reclamation effort to irrigate the Boise and Payette River valleys in Idaho. The diversion dam, co... More

Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company System, Lift Gate, Dolores, Montezuma County, CO

Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company System, Lift Gate, Dolores, Montez...

Survey number: HAER CO-4-E Building/structure dates: ca. 1885 Initial Construction

Irrigation ditch digging, Fort Morgan, Colo.

Irrigation ditch digging, Fort Morgan, Colo.

Photograph shows men spread out across the land using teams of horses to dig ditches for irrigation. Fort Morgan Drug Co., Fort Morgan, Colo.

[Pat Crowe & Senate Irrigation Com., 7/28/22]

[Pat Crowe & Senate Irrigation Com., 7/28/22]

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pat Crow & Senate Irrigation Com., 7/28/22

Pat Crow & Senate Irrigation Com., 7/28/22

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Ask for 113 million... A group of western senators leaving White House after urging Pres. Roosevelt to aid speedy allocation of funds for reclamation and irrigation projects in their states. Left to right: Pat McCarran, D. Nev., Carl Hatch, D. New M., Dennis Chavez (D. New Mex), Lewis B. Schwellenbach (D.Wash), Edward R. Burk (D.Neb), James P. Pope (D.Ida), Homer... Bone (D. Wash), 7/2/35

Ask for 113 million... A group of western senators leaving White House...

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Constructing a new irrigation canal. Bosque Farms, New Mexico

Constructing a new irrigation canal. Bosque Farms, New Mexico

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Main irrigation canal. Bosque Farms, New Mexico

Main irrigation canal. Bosque Farms, New Mexico

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This family from Arkansas had one thousand dollras when they arrived in California. There are eleven children in family. They bought a forty acre piece of land on which they still owe one thousand dollars. A Farm Security Administration (FSA) loan bought them dairy cows, an irrigation plant, and seed for irrigated pasture lands. Note large vegetable garden and small house. Tulare County, California

This family from Arkansas had one thousand dollras when they arrived i...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mural: "Irrigation," by Nicolai Cikovsky at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.

Mural: "Irrigation," by Nicolai Cikovsky at the Department of Interior...

Date: 1938; dimensions: 92"x 68"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line:... More

Finishing up of well for irrigation purposes. Getting reading to put in the casing and the pump. Near Garden City, Kansas

Finishing up of well for irrigation purposes. Getting reading to put i...

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Getting ready to put in the pumping part of the water well for irrigation purposes on a farm near Garden City, Kansas

Getting ready to put in the pumping part of the water well for irrigat...

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The Daugherty home. Note siphon which brings irrigation water from the opposite bench. Warm Springs district, Malheur County, Oregon. General caption 74

The Daugherty home. Note siphon which brings irrigation water from the...

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Cherry orchards, farm lands and irrigation ditch at Emmett, Idaho

Cherry orchards, farm lands and irrigation ditch at Emmett, Idaho

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Mr. Johnson, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client with part interest in cooperative well, using a makeshift dam of tumbleweeds and board in order to divert water from irrigation ditch to field, Syracuse, Kansas

Mr. Johnson, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client with part inter...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro migrant agricultural workers' quarters by irrigation and drainage ditch near Belle Glade, Florida

Negro migrant agricultural workers' quarters by irrigation and drainag...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Irrigation ditch flows across road at entrance to Chamisal, New Mexico

Irrigation ditch flows across road at entrance to Chamisal, New Mexico

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Galilee trip. Saffourieh (near Nazareth). Saforis (Sepphoris). Irrigation canal

Galilee trip. Saffourieh (near Nazareth). Saforis (Sepphoris). Irrigat...

Photograph shows the Palestinian Arab village of Saffuriyya (Saffuriya). The American Colony in Jerusalem was a Christian utopian community that was established in Jerusalem in the late 19th century. The commu... More

Valley of the Uncampaghre River with irrigation water conduit. Ouray County, Colorado

Valley of the Uncampaghre River with irrigation water conduit. Ouray C...

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Santa Clara River, main source of water supply for irrigation for the town of Santa Clara, Utah. See general caption

Santa Clara River, main source of water supply for irrigation for the ...

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Irrigation at Solomonsville, Arizona

Irrigation at Solomonsville, Arizona

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hereford cattle eating hay grown by flood irrigation methods in the Little Colorado River Valley in Apache County near Springerville, Arizona

Hereford cattle eating hay grown by flood irrigation methods in the Li...

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Main dam for irrigation water, Santa Clara, Utah

Main dam for irrigation water, Santa Clara, Utah

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Fields extending into the mountains. Henefer, Utah. Mormon farmers in this section not only practice irrigation but take advantage of as much of all natural runoff from the mountains as possible

Fields extending into the mountains. Henefer, Utah. Mormon farmers in ...

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Irrigation water from Owyhee Dam being carried across valley of small creek. Malheur County, Oregon

Irrigation water from Owyhee Dam being carried across valley of small ...

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Elmer A. Colpitts, on the board of directors of the cooperative association of Scottsbluff Farmsteads, a FSA (Farm Security Administration) project. He came from the land use area around Crawford, Nebraska, extremely dry land with no irrigation, in 1938. He works only on the co-op. Scottsbluff, Nebraska

Elmer A. Colpitts, on the board of directors of the cooperative associ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico. A Spanish-American village in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The mountains provide water for irrigation

Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico. A Spanish-American village in the fo...

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Egypt. Agriculture. Primitive irrigation wheel

Egypt. Agriculture. Primitive irrigation wheel

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Irrigation. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Irrigation. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Picryl description: Public domain view of a mountain range, mountainous landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken b... More

Hunting Ground Squirrels. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Hunting Ground Squirrels. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

People in photograph: Cassinelli, Bob Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Proje... More

Diversion Dam. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Diversion Dam. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

People in photograph: Cassinelli, Bob Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Proje... More

Dam. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Dam. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by... More

Headgate. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Headgate. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Building wooden headgate People in photograph: Cassinelli, Don; Cassinelli, Pete; Cassinelli, Bob The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the American Folklife C... More

Headgate. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Headgate. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project underta... More

Milk jug irrigation system in Dewey Gunnoe's garden

Milk jug irrigation system in Dewey Gunnoe's garden

The recycled gallon milk jugs are filled with water and used to drip-irrigate the tomato plants. The jugs are punctured with a small nail, filled with water, and placed at the base of the tomato stalks. Event: ... More

Mural "Salt River Irrigation Project, Arizona," by Frank MacKenzie at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.

Mural "Salt River Irrigation Project, Arizona," by Frank MacKenzie at ...

Date: 1928; dimensions: 84" x 178 3/4"; medium: oil. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit... More

Rolling irrigation sprinkler in Gaines County, Texas, in the peanut-and-cotton-growing country between Hobbs, New Mexico, and Seminole, Texas

Rolling irrigation sprinkler in Gaines County, Texas, in the peanut-an...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Irrigating Rice Fields by the Windmill Process in China

Irrigating Rice Fields by the Windmill Process in China

H120637 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12092. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Irrigation in Nile Valley, and circular thrashing floors, Egypt

Irrigation in Nile Valley, and circular thrashing floors, Egypt

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 11121. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Farms; Irrigation; Ph. Ind.

Sainsevain Property, 14804 Summit Avenue, Fontana, San Bernardino County, CA

Sainsevain Property, 14804 Summit Avenue, Fontana, San Bernardino Coun...

Significance: The 1874 residence and ancillary structures a smokehouse and reservoir, are eligible for listing on the National Register according to Criteria A, B, C, (and D). The Sainsevain Complex is signif... More

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Ashurst-Hayden Dam, Gila River, T4S R11E S7, Coolidge, Pinal County, AZ

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Ashurst-Hayden Dam, Gila River, T4S R11...

Survey number: HAER AZ-50-A Public domain photograph of architecture design drawing, building plan, diagram, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washington County, UT

Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washin...

Significance: When an expanding population created a demand for more farmland, the residents of the narrow Virgin River valley turned to the Hurricane Bench, a broad expanse of fertile land requiring only water... More

Arlington Heights Citrus Landscape, Southwestern portion of city of Riverside, Riverside, Riverside County, CA

Arlington Heights Citrus Landscape, Southwestern portion of city of Ri...

See also HAER CA-118, CA-120 & CA-121 for additional information. Significance: Arlington Heights is the last vestige of the once-vast citrus culture of Riverside, California. Although other citrus groves in t... More

Arlington Heights Citrus Landscape, Southwestern portion of city of Riverside, Riverside, Riverside County, CA

Arlington Heights Citrus Landscape, Southwestern portion of city of Ri...

See also HAER CA-118, CA-120 & CA-121 for additional information. Significance: Arlington Heights is the last vestige of the once-vast citrus culture of Riverside, California. Although other citrus groves in t... More

Hoover Dam, Spanning Colorado River at Route 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Spanning Colorado River at Route 93, Boulder City, Clark C...

Significance: It is a National Historic Landmark, an American Civil Engineering Landmark, and the focus of an historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The dam was constructed betwee... More

Hoover Dam, Spanning Colorado River at Route 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Spanning Colorado River at Route 93, Boulder City, Clark C...

Significance: It is a National Historic Landmark, an American Civil Engineering Landmark, and the focus of an historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The dam was constructed betwee... More

Hoover Dam, Spanning Colorado River at Route 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Spanning Colorado River at Route 93, Boulder City, Clark C...

Significance: It is a National Historic Landmark, an American Civil Engineering Landmark, and the focus of an historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The dam was constructed betwee... More

San Carlos Irrigation Project, San Tan Indian Canal, North of Gila River, Coolidge, Pinal County, AZ

San Carlos Irrigation Project, San Tan Indian Canal, North of Gila Riv...

Survey number: HAER AZ-50-K Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trout Creek Dam, River Mile 1.8 on Trout Creek, Carson, Skamania County, WA

Trout Creek Dam, River Mile 1.8 on Trout Creek, Carson, Skamania Count...

Significance: The dam and fish ladder were constructed by the CCC, Company 944 in 1935-36. The structure, a concrete arch dam, is believed to be one of the largest power generation plants constructed solely by ... More

Trout Creek Dam, River Mile 1.8 on Trout Creek, Carson, Skamania County, WA

Trout Creek Dam, River Mile 1.8 on Trout Creek, Carson, Skamania Count...

Significance: The dam and fish ladder were constructed by the CCC, Company 944 in 1935-36. The structure, a concrete arch dam, is believed to be one of the largest power generation plants constructed solely by ... More

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 1 (House), 30601 Wellton-Mohawk Drive, Wellton, Yuma County, AZ

Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation System, Building No. 1 (House), 30601 Wellto...

Significance: Building 1, as part of the former Willton Government Camp, is associated with the Wellton-Mohawk Division of the Gila Project. Construction of the Wellton-Mohawk irrigation system began in 1949 an... More

Klamath Basin Project, "A" Canal Headworks House, 500 Nevada Street, Klamath Falls, Klamath County, OR

Klamath Basin Project, "A" Canal Headworks House, 500 Nevada Street, K...

Significance: This house is among the first constructed by the Federal government in developing in the Klamath Basin Project. The A Canal and its headworks are the first Federal diversion from Upper Klamath Lak... More

Irrigation Canals in the Uinta Basin, Duchesne, Duchesne County, UT

Irrigation Canals in the Uinta Basin, Duchesne, Duchesne County, UT

Significance: The irrigation canals in the Uinta Basin represent turn-of-the-century water development efforts of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Mormon settlers. Originally intended to help the reservation I... More

Irrigation Canals in the Uinta Basin, Duchesne, Duchesne County, UT

Irrigation Canals in the Uinta Basin, Duchesne, Duchesne County, UT

Significance: The irrigation canals in the Uinta Basin represent turn-of-the-century water development efforts of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Mormon settlers. Originally intended to help the reservation I... More

Truckee-Carson Irrigation District Facility Yard, Car Repair Shop, Sixth & Taylor Streets, Fallon, Churchill County, NV

Truckee-Carson Irrigation District Facility Yard, Car Repair Shop, Six...

Significance: The building is a fine example of period vernacular architecture. / The building first appears on a 1953 map of the TCID; however, it is situated on the site of the grease rack shown on the 1937 C... More

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Pima Lateral, Main Canal at Sacaton Dam, Coolidge, Pinal County, AZ

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Pima Lateral, Main Canal at Sacaton Dam...

Survey number: HAER AZ-50-H Public domain photograph of electric power generation, power lines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Pima Lateral, Main Canal at Sacaton Dam, Coolidge, Pinal County, AZ

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Pima Lateral, Main Canal at Sacaton Dam...

Survey number: HAER AZ-50-H Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Klamath Basin Project, Lost River Diversion Dam House, Lost River near intersection of State Highway 140 & Hill Road, Klamath Falls, Klamath County, OR

Klamath Basin Project, Lost River Diversion Dam House, Lost River near...

Significance: The dam serves as another important feature of the irrigation and economic development of Klamath Basin. This dam was necessary to help drain and reclaim Tule Lake and make it available for agricu... More

Klamath Basin Project, Lost River Diversion Dam House, Lost River near intersection of State Highway 140 & Hill Road, Klamath Falls, Klamath County, OR

Klamath Basin Project, Lost River Diversion Dam House, Lost River near...

Significance: The dam serves as another important feature of the irrigation and economic development of Klamath Basin. This dam was necessary to help drain and reclaim Tule Lake and make it available for agricu... More

Wickiup Dam, Deschutes River, La Pine, Deschutes County, OR

Wickiup Dam, Deschutes River, La Pine, Deschutes County, OR

Significance: Wickiup Dam and its related features are significant at the state level for their association with the development of the irrigated agricultural economy that strongly influenced the historic devel... More

Wickiup Dam, Deschutes River, La Pine, Deschutes County, OR

Wickiup Dam, Deschutes River, La Pine, Deschutes County, OR

Significance: Wickiup Dam and its related features are significant at the state level for their association with the development of the irrigated agricultural economy that strongly influenced the historic devel... More

Wickiup Dam, Deschutes River, La Pine, Deschutes County, OR

Wickiup Dam, Deschutes River, La Pine, Deschutes County, OR

Significance: Wickiup Dam and its related features are significant at the state level for their association with the development of the irrigated agricultural economy that strongly influenced the historic devel... More

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