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An image of two men digging a ditch for irrigation purposes after a breaking-plow did the preliminary digging.

An image of a crop field's row irrigation with mountains in the background; the photo is a part of The Romance of Water: The Lake Lowell Story exhibit.

A ca 1950s image of a man irrigating a row of crops. This is a typical scene of the long canals that bear the life giving water to the soil.

An image of a man working in a hay field.

A 1953 image of skinner cows grazing in front of a canal and farmhouse.

An image of what 1890s farming was like. The farmers seen are harvesting their crops by grain threshing. None of their identities are known at this time.

A ca 1950s photo of children working in a lettuce field, namely they are working on the irrigation around the crops.

An image of sweet corn fields with Lizard Butte (mountain) in the background.

An image of a young pear orchard taken in 1905.

A 1905 image of an orchard; the trees are five years old in this photo.

A 1905 image of numerous haystacks next to a barn as well as a hay derrick (the long pole above the hay) beside the stacks. Two horse and buggies can also be spotted along the dirt road in this photo.

An image of numerous crop fields that employed irrigation farming; 1911-1912.

An image of the corrugation method used to water crops throughout Idaho.

A black and white image of a young orchard known as Art Lattig.

An early 1900s image of threshing grain in Canyon County; photo taken from a glass plate. None of the men in the image are known at this time.

A 1911 image of a young fruit orchard's irrigation. There is a man--unidentified at this time--shown holding a shovel to the right side of the photo.

An image of Art Lattig Orchards from ca 1901. It shows two farmers leveling a field in Payette, Idaho.

An April 20, 1910 image of a leveling crew at Idaho Land Company's orchard track.

A photograph of alfalfa rolled into bales in two stacks with a hay derrick between them. The photograph was taken in the Rexburg area.

A photograph of a grain field/oats in shocks on a farm in Idaho.