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Photograph of farmland on the T & T Ranch, Nevada, circa 1953

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Title Photograph of farmland on the T & T Ranch, Nevada, circa 1953
Description Men irrigating new alfalfa on the T & T Ranch in the Amargosa Valley. Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Irrigating land newly planted in alfalfa, T & T Ranch, Amargosa Valley, Nevada, about 1952 or 1954. Gordon Bettles is pictured with the shovel. The child pictured in the foreground is a niece of Bob Fishel and Betty Lou Kemp, daughter of M.P. Gless' Glessner. Note the profile of the sleeping old man silhouetted along the crest of the Funeral Mountains."
Source 0221:0050 Nye County Collection;
Date 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955
Coverage Amargosa Valley; Nye; Nevada; United States;
Subject Alfalfa; Agriculture; Children; Diversion weirs; Field crops; Irrigation canals and flumes; Men; Mountains; Mud; Rural girls; Water-supply, Rural; Farm equipment;
Type Still Image;
Language eng
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Format image/tiff 10.08 x 8.13 inches
Publisher University of Nevada, Las Vegas University Libraries
Identifier http://digital.library.unlv.edu:81/u?/hln,342

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