Bamboo Waterwheel Used to Raise Water for Irrigation

Title: Bamboo Waterwheel Used to Raise Water for Irrigation
Caption: A bamboo waterwheel used to raise water for irrigation. [20 feet high or more. Glass cracked.]
Identifier: DCG_059
Alternative Identifier: 1, 2
Description: A Chinese man stands posing in front of a huge waterwheel used to move water into terraced fields. Another waterwheel can be seen to the left behind him. The entire Chengdu Plain was provided with water by the Dujiangyan waterworks, using such waterwheels, large and small, to push the water into the fields.
Creator: Graham, David Crockett
Original Format: Glass plate (color tinted)
Source: Whitman College and Northwest Archives
Provenance: Jean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughters of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2025-05-27
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image