Irrigation Collection

Visit to Madeira - The Levada Tunnel
Black and white lantern slide of men being carried in hammocks out of the entrance of a tunnel built for a levada - an irrigation channel or aqueduct - Visit to Madeira. Part of Box 125 - Madeira

Building of the Aswan Dam, Egypt -- temples were either covered by water or dismantled and moved to a new location. Date: circa 1960s

Farming in Buraydah, the capital of Al-Qassim Region in north-central Saudi Arabia in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula. Date: circa 1950s

Photographs of boats and engineering work on the Nile Delta irrigation. Captioned, Elegant Irrigation: Britain's notable engineering feat on the Nile Delta'

c. 1880s Japan - irrigation by water wheel treadmill

Chinese peasants using a device with bucket and weight to irrigate the land. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Chinese agriculture. Peasants planting a field with a seeding machine (a hopper with two pipes leading to pronged feet), man irrigating a field on a water pump

Abu Simbel rock temples in Nubia, southern Egypt
Abu Simbel rock temples to Pharaoh Ramesses II and his queen Nefertiti, Nubia, southern Egypt. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Truckee River Dam, near Reno, Nevada, USA
Truckee River Dam, Truckee Carson Irrigation Project, near Reno, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1908

Share certificate, San Antonio Land and Irrigation Company Limited -- 10 shares, dated 19 September 1911, made out to J H Dunn. Date: 1911

Water supply using a shaduf, Egypt
Water supply using a shaduf (shadoof), Egypt, used by farmers for irrigation of their land. Date: 1922

Farmer Irrigates Land Date: 1948

SANANTONIO LAND SHARE
Shares in the San Antonio, Texas, Land and Irrigation Company Date: 1914

Rio Cobre Dam, Jamaica, West Indies, Caribbean. The dam harnesses the waters of the Rio Cobre for the purpose of irrigation. Date: circa 1940s

Large waterwheels at Antakya
Hama, Syria. The city is renowned for its 17 norias (waterwheels) used for watering the gardens, which date back to 1100 BC

Plantation at Lake Caijo, French Congo
Group of people standing and crouching on a path next to a palm tree with the irrigation system at a plantation at Lake Caijo in French Congo

Large Artesian Well, Oasis Ranch nr Roswell, New Mexico, USA
Artesian Well (the largest in the World), on the Oasis Ranch near to Roswell, New Mexico, USA - more than 900 feet deep and flowed 9100 gallons of water a minute - used to irrigate local farmland

Hama, Syria, Bridge over Orontes River and Giant Waterwheels
Hama, Syria - Great Bridge over the El-Assi (Orontes) River and the Giant waterwheels. The city is renowned for these seventeen norias, which locals claim date back to 1100 BC

Syria. Hama. Noria in the Orontes river next to the aqueduct
Syrian. The Norias of Bechriyyat in Hama. The waterwheels at Hama, known as Norias, are up to 20m high and have been standing since the 13th century. Middle East

Oxus River (Amu Darya)
The Oxus River (Amu Darya) at Khami-i-ab, looking east, near Khoja-Saleh. The river supplied irrigation for the ancient oasis kingdoms of Khiva and Khwarism. Date: 1885

Karakum / Qaraqum / Kara Kum / Garagum Canal - water comes from water pump in sluices. goes along Kopet-Dag Mountain Range - Turkmenistan - Spring - April

Hama, Syria - The Giant waterwheels on the Orontes River. The city is renowned for these seventeen norias, which locals claim date back to 1100 BC

Hama Syria - Great Bridge over the El-Assi River
Hama, Syria - Great Bridge over the El-Assi (Orontes) River and the Giant waterwheels. The city is renowned for these seventeen norias, which locals claim date back to 1100 BC

Egyptian Shadoof - Irrigation system on the River Nile
Egyptian Shadoof at Cairo, raising water from the Nile to irrigate fields. The shadoof was originally developed in ancient Mesopotamia, and appears on a Sargonid seal of around 2000 BCE

Egyptian Shadoof
Egyptian SHADOOF at Cairo, raising water from the Nile to irrigate fields

Water well for irrigation, Shaduf, Egypt
Water well for irrigation, Shadoof (Shaduf), Egypt, North Africa. circa late 19th century

Shadoof (Chadouf) at the Nile river, Egypt. The shadoof is a traditional irrigation tool to easily lift water by hand from a water source to a higher level

Camels crossing over Delta Barrage at the Nile, Egypt
Caravan of camels, other animals and their riders crossing over the bascule bridge at Delta Barrage at the Nile, Egypt. The Delta Barrage north of Cairo was constructed in the 19th century to improve

Sakia in Upper Egypt
Camel-drawn wooden sakia in Upper Egypt with local children supervising. The sakia (sakieh) is an animal-drawn water wheel serving irrigation and is still used in India

Sluice gates of the Delta Barrage at the Nile, Egypt, with people on the dam waiting to cross. The Delta Barrage was constructed in the 19th century to improve

Sakia (sakieh) in operation, Middle East
Ox-drawn sakia (sakieh) in operation, Middle East. The sakia (sakieh) is an animal-drawn water wheel serving irrigation and is still used in India, Egypt and other parts of the Middle East

Egypt, Africa - A Sakia, used for irrigation. Date: 1910s

Digging an irrigation ditch, Egypt, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Antakya, Turkey - Orontes River
Large waterwheel (far left) on the Orontes River at Antioch (Antakya), Turkey. The waterwheels are used for irrigation. Date: 1920

Syrian. Hama. The Noria of Al-Mohamedieh of Hama along the Orentes river. Middle East

Hoya de Don Garcia Noria (1818). Abaran. Region of Murcia. S
Hoya de Don Garcia Noria (1818) in the Segura river. Wood. Abaran. Region of Murcia. Spain

Esben-El-Ekiad / Egypt
Esbet-el-Ekiad - Land of the Goshen. Date: 1904

Irrigated orchard, California, USA. Date: 1919

Irrigation ditch and sugar cane field, Hawaii, USA. Date: 1935

Irrigation from the River Nile, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Assiut Barrage on the Nile
Constructing the Assiut of Asyut Barrage on the River Nile in Egypt, about 350 miles downstream of the Aswan Dam. The dam was built in order to divert the waters of the Nile into Egypts largest

Mount Fuji, Japan - with a village and agricultural workers labouring in the fields in the foreground. Date: circa 1910s

Fields of Strawberries and Irrigation system California, USA
Fields of Strawberries and Irrigation system. Farm of E.W. Eaton of Watsonville, California, USA. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - A street in Tokyo and a street in Osaka - decorative
Japan - A street in Tokyo and a street in Osaka - two photographs set within a very decorative surround of bamboo water pipes, swallows and lilies. Date: circa 1910s

Persian Waterwheel on the Indus, Pakistan - irrigation technology. Date: circa 1910s

Saudi Arabia - Irrigation Canal in Al-Qatif. Date: 1976

Farmer on Vale-Owyhee irrigation project. Malheur County, Oregon. Date 1941 June

Veles, Macedonia - Waterwheel used for irrigation on the Vardar River Date: circa 1910s

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