Irrigation Collection (page 2)

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

Syria - Hama - Russian Consul General on the Orontes
Hama, Syria - The Russian Consul General on the Orontes River, accompanied by The Greek Orthodox clergy. They are photographed by a large and free-flowing waterwheel

Syria - Hama
General view of Hama, Syria. The city is renowned for its 17 norias (waterwheels) used for watering the gardens, which date back to 1100 BC

Pune, India - Khadakwasla Water Works
Pune (Poona), India - Khadakwasla Water Works. The original dam (pictured on this postcard), was built in the 1879 as a masonry gravity dam and was the first of its kind in the world. Date: 1910s

Hyderabad, India - Hussain Sagar Lake Canal. The Hussain Sagar Lake was built by Hazrat Hussain Shah Wali in 1562, during the rule of Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah

Diesel engines for the Gezira irrigation scheme, 1924 Date: 1924

Country scene in Breconshire, Powys, Mid Wales
An Edwardian country scene, with a weir providing irrigation for crops, in the former county of Breconshire (also known as the County of Brecknock, Brecknockshire, and the County of Brecon)

Antioch - Turkey - Large waterwheel
Antioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey. One of the large waterwheels for which Antioch is famed

Waterwheel at Antioch
Antioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey. One of the large waterwheels for which Antioch is famed

Traditional Egyptian water wheel
A traditional ox-powered Egyptain water wheel, used to draw up water from the Nile for irrigation

Egypt - Alexandria - Mahmoudieh Canal
Egypt - The Mahmoudieh Canal, the water highway between Alexandria and the River Nile

Large waterwheel at Antakya
Antioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey. One of the large waterwheels for which Antioch is famed

Shadoof - Egyptian irrigation system
Two Egyptian men operate a Shadoof - Egyptian irrigation system - the pivot arm lifts a bucket which raises water onto a higher field level

View toward The Pyramids Giza, Egypt
View across an irrigation channel and through some tall thin palm trees toward The Pyramids Giza, Cairo, Egypt

Steam-Plough in the Arkansas Valley, 1907
Photograph showing the latest Steam-plough, creating seven furrows at a time, as used in the Arkansas valley, 1907. At this time the valley was being reclaimed by means of irrigation

Nilometer / Cairo
Nilometer, Cairo. Used to measure the height of the Nile at flood. Also the site traditionally believed to be where Miriam discovered Moses

Camels Drinking
At La Segnia, (probably in Algeria) two camels kneel to drink from an irrigation trench

Nilometer (Mayer) 1802
The Nilometer at Cairo

Egyptian Shadoof 2
Egyptian farmers raise water from the Nile to irrigate their fields, by means of a Shadoof

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