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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

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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Turbine in Shed

Date: 1937
Description: Byron Jackson Deep-well Turbine in a shed. The turbine was powered by an International P-12 power unit. Next to the turbine are water outlets to an irrigat...
Photograph

Irrigation Ditch and Apple Orchards

Date: 1910
Description: View of an irrigation ditch near apple orchards in. Mountains are in the distance. Caption reads: Irrigation Ditch And Apple Orchards, Near Cashmere, Wash....
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

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...
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

Cranberry Harvester with Cranberries

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

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