Colorado Agricultural College
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Irrigation Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: WIPC
Abstract
The Irrigation Photograph Collection contains lantern slides and glass plate negatives related primarily to irrigation and agricultural subjects in Colorado and around the world. Colorado locations include the Colorado Agricultural College campus, Long's Peak, the San Luis Valley, and the Eastern Plains. Other countries significantly represented through irrigation or cultural sites include Egypt, Algeria, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Mexico. A portion of the...
Dates:
1889-1933; Majority of material found within 1898-1909
Irrigation Research Papers
Collection
Identifier: WIRP
Abstract
In 1911, the Irrigation Investigations Unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was established in Fort Collins in conjunction with Colorado Agricultural College (now Colorado State University). Scientists within the unit, including Ralph Parshall, Carl Rohwer, Victor M. Cone, and William E. Code, conducted irrigation-related research. They studied and designed apparatuses to measure water flow through canals and diversion structures, investigated various irrigation projects, and conducted...
Dates:
1890-1985; Majority of material found within 1920-1950
Papers of Fannie Cunningham
Collection
Identifier: WCUN
Abstract
Frances "Fannie" Schelt Cunningham (1872-1967) graduated from Colorado Agricultural College (now Colorado State University) in 1895. Following college, she taught in local public schools until she married Frank Cunningham in 1903. The collection documents her college studies, along with some of her later writing on topics including westward expansion, local pioneers, and the western landscape. Cunningham also photographed landscapes, rivers, canyons, and ditches in northern Colorado,...
Dates:
1892-1965; Majority of material found within 1892-1927
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- Cache la Poudre River (Colo.) 2
- Irrigation engineering 2
- Negatives 2
- San Luis Valley (Colo. and N.M.) 2
- Agriculture 1
- Algeria 1
- Arkansas River Watershed 1
- Colorado 1
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) 1
- Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico) 1
- Dam failures 1
- Dams 1
- Egypt 1
- Flumes 1
- France 1
- Groundwater 1
- Irrigation 1
- Irrigation canals and flumes 1
- Irrigation canals and flumes -- Colorado 1
- Irrigation engineers 1
- Irrigation farming 1
- Irrigation pumps 1
- Irrigation water 1
- Italy 1
- Lantern slides 1
- Larimer County (Colo.) 1
- Maps 1
- Parshall flumes 1
- Snow surveys 1
- South Platte River Watershed (Colo. and Neb.) 1
- Surveying 1
- Veterinary medicine 1
- Water current meters 1
- Water resources development -- Colorado 1
- Weirs 1
- Wells 1
- Women college graduates 1
- Women teachers 1 + ∧ less
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