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Irrigation gate and canal near Ordway, Colorado

Library of Congress · 1939 Sept. · Russell Lee

A straight canal full of water runs to the horizon across flat, bare farmland; in the foreground a concrete check structure carries four geared gate hoists on a single shaft.
From the archive · Library of Congress · 1939 Sept. Irrigation gate and canal near Ordway, Colorado Russell Lee

Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USF34-034173-D No known restrictions on publication. Archive record ↗ · Rights

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Russell Lee's September 1939 photograph of a check gate on a canal near Ordway, in the Arkansas Valley, made for the Farm Security Administration at the end of the Dust Bowl decade.

Shows: A working Arkansas Valley canal and its gate hardware in 1939, water in it.

What this does not let you conclude: Which canal this is -- the catalogue says only 'near Ordway' -- so it is placed on the division, not on a structure.

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