Greenfields ranch--A drop in the Kern Island canal – Historic Reproduction
![Greenfields ranch--A drop in the Kern Island canal, [1888] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/92/92f660434b0a-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Greenfields ranch--A drop in the Kern Island canal
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At Greenfields ranch, a drop in the Kern Island canal shows how builders managed the steep fall of water between the river and the fields below. Carleton Watkins made the photograph around 1888, when ditches drawing from the Kern River were turning the dry land of Kern County into irrigated farmland. Watkins was best known for his large landscape views, and this numbered print records a working structure rather than scenery, with the drop slowing the current so it could be carried safely across the flat ground. Canals like this one were central to the valley's agricultural growth.
| Created / published | [1888] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Watkins photo. no. 69. |
| Subjects | Canals--California--Kern County--1880-1890. Dams--California--Kern County--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,445 × 1,154 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219395 |
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