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Title
Irrigating cantaloupes near Brawley, showing thin streams of water in crops, ca.1910
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1910
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of cantaloupes being irrigated near Brawley in the Imperial Valley, showing thin streams of water in crops, ca.1910. Thin streams of murky water flow between rows of raised soil where plants grow. Taller plants stand in the left background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m7272
USC-0-1-1-7401 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-45160
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7272
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-45160.jpg
Subject
Imperial County--Brawley
Muskmelon
Fruit
Irrigation
Agriculture
Agricultural sites
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
Brawley
California
Imperial
USA
Source
45160 [Accession number]
CHS-45160 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 6093 [Identifying number]

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