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- "Water Wheel and Irrigation Ditch on a Great Fruit Farm in Washington," circa 1925 -
- circa 1925
- Collections - Artifact
"Water Wheel and Irrigation Ditch on a Great Fruit Farm in Washington," circa 1925
- Wood Engraving, "Rice Culture on the Ogeechee, near Savannah, Georgia," 1867 - Rice grows best when fields are flooded at planting time and periodically during the growing season. Enslaved people built the infrastructure that rice required before the Civil War. This colorized illustration featured rice cultivation after Emancipation, with individuals at work in all stages of rice cultivation in an area of intensive rice cultivation, on the Ogeechee River near Savannah, Georgia.
- January 05, 1867
- Collections - Artifact
Wood Engraving, "Rice Culture on the Ogeechee, near Savannah, Georgia," 1867
Rice grows best when fields are flooded at planting time and periodically during the growing season. Enslaved people built the infrastructure that rice required before the Civil War. This colorized illustration featured rice cultivation after Emancipation, with individuals at work in all stages of rice cultivation in an area of intensive rice cultivation, on the Ogeechee River near Savannah, Georgia.