Acequia Maintenance

Dateca. 1933

Mediumgelatin silver print

Dimensions4 1/4 × 5 15/16 in. (10.9 × 15.1 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Bonnie Holten

Object numberPA2022.030.032

DescriptionMen work in an acequia or irrigation channel, clearing mud and shoring up the sides of the ditch. The men are using shoves and are standing in calf-deep water. One man stands above them and watches the men work. The men are working as part of a program with the New Deal in New Mexico.

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