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Photographs Related to Rice Growing and Irrigation in California, 1908-1916
BANC PIC 1905.02929-.02947--A
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Collection Title: Photographs Related to Rice Growing and Irrigation in California,
Date: 1908-1916
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1905.02929-.02947--A
Extent:
17 photographic prints; black and white, 9 x 30 cm. or smaller
19 digital objects
Repository:
The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is available for use.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish photographs must be submitted
in writing to the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
Copyright restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted
to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item],
Photographs Related to Rice Growing and Irrigation in California, BANC PIC 1905.02929-.02947--A, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Digital Representations Available
Digital representations of selected original pictorial materials are available in the list of materials below. Digital image files were prepared from selected Library originals by the Library Photographic Service. Library originals were
copied onto 35mm color transparency film; the film was scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CD (by Custom Process); and
the Photo CD files were color-corrected and saved in JFIF (JPEG) format for use as viewing files.
Transferred from the Marcel E. Cerf Papers (BANC MSS C-G 38)
This collection contains 17 black and white photographs taken between the years 1908 and 1916 of rice fields, agricultural
equipment, and irrigation procedures, primarily in Yolo County, California. Several photographs feature Fair Ranch, located
in Knight's Landing. Other rice fields in Yolo County are also pictured. The construction of Natoma's Levee on the Sacramento
River is shown and an unidentified pumping plant. In addition to irrigation, rice threshing and field plowing are depicted.
Photographs of tractors and other agricultural equipment, including the "Austen Ditcher" are also included in the collection.
The photographers are unknown.