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282 -- Nubian water wheel at a irrigation farm, Italy

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SS-282

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection consists of photographs taken between 1882 and 1953 of various exterior locations primarily in Orange County, California, including Santa Ana, Tustin, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, Garden Grove, Orange, San Juan Capistrano, San Juan Hot Springs, and Irvine. There are also photographs of Catalina Island and Riverside. More than half of the photographs date to the period prior to 1900. The collection includes in most cases the glass plate or film negatives used to create the prints.

Dates

  • 1882 - 1953

Extent

From the Collection: 27 boxes

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials

Glass Negative. Box 4.

General

Irrigation farm in Italy. A man and two small children are standing next to a Nubian water wheel. It is a vertical wheel bearing a number of pottery vessels. When the wheel spins in the water, the pottery vessels are filled with water and then poured into the basin to be irrigated. This wheel is connected to another wheel parallel to it and has wooden gears clipped in the wheels of another horizontal wheel. The animal is connected to the arm. When the animal revolves around the last axis of the wheel, the stem rotates accordingly. Italy.

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the CSUF University Archives & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University Archives & Special Collections
Pollak Library South Room 352 (PLS 352)
Fullerton CA 92831-3599 USA
(657) 278-4751