Cement-lined irrigation canal in the Salt River Valley, Arizona, [s.d.]

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Photograph of a cement-lined irrigation canal in the Salt River Valley, Arizona, [s.d.]. The canal is shown, filled with water at left, extending into the right distance. To the far right, an automobile faces the viewer. A mountain can be seen in the background. Photograph reads "Main canals are now being lined in this fashion and the water thus saved from seepage will bring into production forty-thousand acres of additional land".

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Title Cement-lined irrigation canal in the Salt River Valley, Arizona, [s.d.]

Subject Canals (adlf), Irrigation (lcsh), Water-supply (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arizona (states), land parcels: Salt River Valley (geographic subject), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m22801

Identifier 49339 (accession number), CHS-49339 (call number), CHS-49339 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-22223 (legacy record id), chs-m22801 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 22223

Unique identifier UC125195

Legacy Identifier CHS-49339.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.8 in × 19.6 in at 300dpi
58.0 cm × 49.9 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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