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International Power Unit

Date: 1949
Description: International power unit powers an irrigation system.
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Fairway Tractor and Water Pump

Date: 1932
Description: Elevated view of a McCormick-Deering Fairway tractor hooked up to a water pump(?) near a creek at Indian Head Golf Club.
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Water Pump at Bartlett Hills Country Club

Date: 07 10 1928
Description: Two men use a Fairway tractor to power a water pump at Bartlett Hills Country Club. The pump appears to be filling an irrigation trough.
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Making Irrigation Laterals with 10-20 Tractor

Date: 1931
Description: A dog sits on a 10-20 tractor beside Paul M. Dazier as he makes irrigation laterals with an orchard cultivator outfitted with an irrigation attachment.
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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...
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Construction Work

Date: 06 15 1926
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor and a Monarch loader to do construction work, possibly irrigation, in a field. Pieces of pipe lie on the groun...
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Irrigating a Field

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Description: View of sprinklers irrigating a field of beans(?). The field is lined by pine trees in the background.
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Cranberry Harvester with Cranberries

Date: 1935
Description: Unidentified man holding a cranberry rake, next to newly harvested cranberries in crates.
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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 ...
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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...
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Cranberry Fields and Irrigation

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

Date: 10 1983
Description: Men harvesting cranberries on flooded marshes with rakes.
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Cranberry Bog Irrigation

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

Date: 05 1962
Description: Vietnamese Rangers and U.S. Army Ranger advisor ford a rice paddy with a captured prisoner suspected of being Viet Cong in the vicinity of Bac Lien, Vietna...
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Woman and Child on Footbridge

Date: 1962
Description: A woman carrying a child wrapped in a cloth crosses a log footbridge over a canal in the countryside in Vietnam. A boy is standing in the background and th...

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