Image / Manipulating the flood irrigation of an orchard near Turlock, California, circa 1940

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Title: Manipulating the flood irrigation of an orchard near Turlock, California, circa 1940
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1940
Publication Information: California State University, Stanislaus. University Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: California State University, Stanislaus. Library
Collection: Stanislaus Region History and Culture Image Collection
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Three unidentified men are keeping the water channels cleared to allow the water to flow among the trees. The irrigation system created near Turlock, California, provided the amount of water needed to hydrate these peach trees by flooding the orchard.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print; 10 x 17 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt60002512
cturs_043
Language: English
Subject: Agriculture--California--Central Valley (Valley)--History
Irrigation farming--California--Turlock
Orchards--California--Turlock
Place: Turlock (Calif.)

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