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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.
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 Fred B. Hamilton
Collection
Identifier: WFBH
Abstract
Fred B. Hamilton (1911-1954) was a 1933 Colorado Agricultural College (now Colorado State University) graduate in agricultural engineering who specialized in water and erosion control issues. He worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps, the USDA Soil Conservation Service, and later the Diamond A Cattle Company before moving to the Soil Conservation Service at the University of Nebraska. Materials in the collection include papers, photographs, and engineering plans related to irrigation...
Dates:
1934-1946
Papers of Ivan D. Wood
Collection
Identifier: WIDW
Abstract
Ivan Daley Wood (1888-1978) was a distinguished agricultural engineer whose work focused on the many aspects of irrigation, including soil, water application, and conservation. He was employed in both state and federal capacities for over forty years, and held an industry position for another nine years. The collection documents irrigation practices and projects, particularly in the western United States, through the work and writings of Wood and his colleagues, as well as Wood's personal...
Dates:
1907-1973; Majority of material found within 1940-1970
Papers of Louis G. Carpenter
Collection
Identifier: WLGC
Abstract
Louis G. Carpenter (1861-1935), irrigation engineer, was appointed professor and head of engineering and physics at the Colorado Agricultural College in 1888. He became director of the Colorado Experiment Station at that institution in 1899 and remained at the college until 1911. Carpenter initiated the first systematic instruction in irrigation engineering, consulted widely on irrigation and hydraulic construction projects, and was also consulted for his expertise in water law. The...
Dates:
1888-1919; Majority of material found within 1898-1910
Papers of Royce J. Tipton
Collection
Identifier: WRJT
Abstract
During his fifty-year career, Colorado civil engineer Royce J. Tipton (1893-1967) designed numerous large water infrastructure projects in the U.S. West and around the world. As an accomplished and respected consultant, he helped negotiate several interstate water compacts and international treaties. Materials in the collection concern water planning projects conducted by Tipton in the United States, South America, the Middle East, and South Asia. Materials are almost entirely reports...
Dates:
1915-1969; Majority of material found within 1932-1969
Photographs of the Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigated Land Company
Collection
Identifier: WAVS
Abstract
The Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigated Land Company combined eastern wealth, optimism, and engineering skill to irrigate Colorado's arid southeastern plains. Beyond initial attempts at growing and processing sugar beets, the company established the Amity Canal Model Dairy Farm about 1914. The collection consists chiefly of photographic materials along with a set of engineering letters. Photographic subjects are mainly the company's irrigation facilities and related construction or...
Dates:
1898-1925; Majority of material found within 1902-1920
Records of the Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigated Land Company
Collection
Identifier: WAVX
Abstract
Formed in 1901 to take over several earlier companies, the Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigated Land Company operated the Amity Canal System in southeastern Colorado. The company became a subsidiary of the Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1910, went through several lawsuits that mutualized the system, and dissolved in 1966. The collection documents the company through materials accumulated in the New York office, including meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, legal and financial...
Dates:
1883-1979; Majority of material found within 1901-1950
Records of the North Poudre Irrigation Company
Collection
Identifier: WNPR
Abstract
Since 1901, the North Poudre Irrigation Company (NPIC) has supplied water to Northern Colorado's Boxelder Creek Valley farmers and ranchers through its system of canals and reservoirs. Today, the company owns nineteen reservoirs and approximately 200 miles of ditches and laterals. The company's activities and system are documented through a variety of material types including annual reports, stock certificates, financial records, legal documents, engineering reports, correspondence, meeting...
Dates:
1880-2009; Majority of material found within 1901-2005
Records of the San Luis Valley Irrigation District
Collection
Identifier: WSLV
Abstract
The San Luis Valley Irrigation District formed in 1908 to deliver water to farmers in Southern Colorado's San Luis Valley. The collection contains some records from the Farmers Union Ditch Company and the Farmers Union Irrigation Company but mostly encompasses records pertaining to district operations. Materials include meeting minutes, financial records, engineering reports, correspondence, legal documents, annual reports, election notices, contracts, clippings, maps, and photographs.
Dates:
1887-1976; Majority of material found within 1900-1930
Water Oral Histories Collection
Collection
Identifier: WOHC
Abstract
The Water Oral Histories Collection consists of interviews and reminiscences covering the work of some of Colorado's distinguished civil engineers, irrigators, and water leaders. Subjects include Northern Colorado's irrigation history, irrigation engineering and research in Colorado, large water storage projects, groundwater issues, and the personal and professional lives of some of Colorado's water leaders.
Dates:
1986-2022
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- Subject: Irrigation engineering. X
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- Subject
- Irrigation engineering. 9
- Photographs. 8
- Arkansas River Watershed. 5
- Maps. 5
- Negatives. 5
- Cache la Poudre River (Colo.) 4
- Colorado. 4
- Fort Collins (Colo.) 4
- Reservoirs -- Colorado. 4
- Water resources development -- Colorado. 4
- Water resources development. 4
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) 3
- Lantern slides. 3
- San Luis Valley (Colo. and N.M.) 3
- Arkansas River. 2
- Bent County (Colo.) 2
- Ditches -- Colorado. 2
- Holly (Colo.) 2
- Irrigation -- Colorado. 2
- Irrigation canals and flumes -- Colorado. 2
- Irrigation engineering -- Colorado. 2
- Irrigation engineers. 2
- Irrigation farming. 2
- Irrigation. 2
- Kiowa County (Colo.) 2
- Prowers County (Colo.) 2
- Rio Grande (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) 2
- South Platte River Watershed (Colo. and Neb.) 2
- Sugar beet industry -- Colorado. 2
- Water-supply -- Colorado. 2
- Aerial photographs. 1
- Agriculture. 1
- Algeria. 1
- Artifacts. 1
- Audiocassettes. 1
- Big Thompson River (Colo.) 1
- Boulder Creek (Boulder County and Weld County, Colo.) 1
- Boxelder Valley (Wyo. and Colo.) 1
- Center (Colo.) 1
- Colombia. 1
- Colorado River Water Conservation District (Colo.) 1
- Colorado River Watershed (Colo.-Mexico) 1
- Costilla County (Colo.) 1
- Cuba. 1
- Dairy cattle. 1
- Dam failures. 1
- Dams. 1
- Denver Basin. 1
- Dolores River Valley (Colo. and Utah) 1
- Douglas County (Colo.) 1
- Ecuador. 1
- Education, Higher -- Colorado -- Fort Collins. 1
- Egypt. 1
- El Paso County (Colo.) 1
- Floods -- Colorado. 1
- Flumes. 1
- France. 1
- Groundwater -- Law and legislation -- Colorado. 1
- Groundwater. 1
- Hinsdale County (Colo.) 1
- Hydraulic engineering. 1
- Irrigation canals and flumes. 1
- Irrigation districts -- Colorado. 1
- Irrigation pumps. 1
- Irrigation water -- Colorado -- Return flow. 1
- Irrigation water. 1
- Italy. 1
- Larimer County (Colo.) 1
- Meteorology -- Observations -- Colorado. 1
- Mexico. 1
- Motion pictures (visual works). 1
- Nebraska. 1
- Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District (Colo.) 1
- Ogallala Aquifer. 1
- Orchard Mesa Irrigation District. 1
- Pakistan. 1
- Parades -- Colorado. 1
- Parshall flumes. 1
- Peru. 1
- Precipitation (Meteorology) -- Colorado -- Measurement. 1
- Rio Grande County (Colo.) 1
- Saguache County (Colo.) 1
- Saint Vrain Basin (Colo.) 1
- San Luis Valley Irrigation District. 1
- Scrapbooks. 1
- Slides (photographs). 1
- Snow surveys. 1
- Soil erosion. 1
- Stereoscopic photography. 1
- Stream measurements -- Colorado. 1
- Surveying. 1
- Turkey. 1
- Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District (Colo.) 1
- Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District (Colo.) 1
- Veterinary medicine. 1
- Water -- Law and legislation -- Colorado. 1
- Water current meters. 1
- Water-supply engineering. 1
- Weirs. 1
- Weld County (Colo.) 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Colorado Agricultural College. 3
- Colorado Agricultural College. Department of Civil and Irrigation Engineering. 3
- Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station. 3
- Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigated Land Company 2
- Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigated Land Company. 2
- Carpenter, L. G. (Louis George), 1861-1935. 2
- Colorado State University. 2
- Anderson Ditch Company. 1
- Broderick, Jim 1
- Carpenter, L. G. (Louis George), 1861-1935 1
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
- Coal Ridge Ditch Company. 1
- Code, W. E. (William E.), 1891- 1
- Colorado A & M College. 1
- Colorado State University. Department of Civil Engineering. 1
- Colorado Water Resources Research Institute. 1
- Colorado. Department of Natural Resources. 1
- Cone, Victor M. 1
- Danielson, Jeris. 1
- Denver (Colo.). Board of Water Commissioners. 1
- Doesken, Nolan J. 1
- Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. 1
- Evans, Harold G. 1
- Evans, Norman A. 1
- Farmers Union Ditch Company. 1
- Farmers Union Irrigation Company. 1
- Fort Collins (Colo.). Utilities. 1
- George, Russell. 1
- Glover, Robert E. (Robert Ellsworth), 1896-1984. 1
- Hamel, Alan C. 1
- Hamilton, Fred B. 1
- Harmon, Dennis. 1
- International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage. 1
- Johnson, Harvey G. 1
- Krech, Alvin W. 1
- Kuhn, Eric. 1
- Left Hand Ditch Company. 1
- Longenbaugh, R. A. (Robert A.) 1
- Lower Boulder Ditch Company. 1
- Luecke, Daniel. 1
- Mobley, Terry 1
- Mountain Supply Ditch Company. 1
- North Poudre Irrigation Company 1
- Ogilvie, James L. 1
- Parshall, Maxwell. 1
- Parshall, Ralph L. (Ralph Leroy), 1881-1959. 1
- Partridge, W. S. 1
- Payne, J. E. (James Edward) 1
- Porter, John. 1
- Pueblo Board of Water Works (Colo.) 1
- R.J. Tipton Associated Engineers. 1
- Randall, Owen. 1
- Robbins, David W. 1
- Rogers, James Grafton, 1883-1971. 1
- Rohwer, Carl. 1
- San Luis Valley Irrigation District 1
- San Luis Valley Irrigation District. 1
- Scanga, Ralph. 1
- Schmidt, Max. 1
- Schuyler, James D. (James Dix), 1848-1912. 1
- Sharp, Thomas R. 1
- Shimmin, Mike. 1
- Shoemaker, Jeff 1
- Smith, MaryLou M., 1950- 1
- Smith, Travis. 1
- Spencer, Herb. 1
- Stannard, Jay D. 1
- Stulp, John. 1
- Tipton and Kalmbach. 1
- Tipton, R. J. (Royce J.), 1893- 1
- Trout, Thomas J. (Thomas James) 1
- United States. Bureau of Irrigation Investigations. 1
- United States. Bureau of Reclamation. 1
- United States. Department of Agriculture. 1
- United States. Soil Conservation Service. 1
- United States. Soil Conservation Service. Division of Irrigation and Water Conservation. 1
- United States. Soil Conservation Service. Division of Irrigation. 1
- University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Dept. of Agricultural Engineering. 1
- Ward, Robert C. 1
- Water Supply and Storage Company. 1
- Wells, Patricia. 1
- Werner, Brian 1
- Wiley, William M. 1
- Wilkinson, Eric. 1
- Wood, Ivan D. 1
- Wright, Kenneth R. 1 ∧ less
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