Item 12: Hoeing Irrigated cotton successfully grown from roots of previous year's plants

Black-and-white image showing workers in the field hoeing plants grown from last year's plants. This image taken in the Imperial Valley, Calif. Because this valley is part of the old Colorado desert, which was once considered one of the uninhabitable deserts in American districts of country below the level of the sea where billows of sand drift across the desert, all of the land was deemed worthless. Irrigation has reclaimed them. In October 1909, the first bale of cotton was ginned in this valley. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1910-1920. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.