Arizona Canal Lined with Cottonwood Trees
Datec. 1909
MediumPaper
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Catalog number1987.1.39
DescriptionArizona Canal lined with Cottonwood trees next to a dirt road.Unidentified portion of a cottonwood-lined local canal and roadway, quite possibly photographed in the farm district around Tempe or Kyrene (today's south Tempe, below Baseline Road). If in the Tempe/Kyrene area, there are a limited number of locations where the Tempe Canal system's main branches followed roads – along portions of Southern Avenue and Guadalupe Road. The alignment of the Orange Belt Canal – today known as the Western Canal – that tracks from east to west between Guadalupe and Elliot Roads is a possibility as well.
The roadway and bridge that are perpendicular to the dirt road in the photo may be a railroad alignment. Aside from the good-sized canal ditch on the left side of the photo, the large cottonwood trees that are also growing on the right side indicate that there is an irrigation channel on that side of the road as well. There is an alignment of utility poles on the left side of the photo visible on the other side of the bridge, situated between the road and the canal ditch. On the right side of the road there is an alignment of smaller poles with wires attached that extend to the right edge of the image.
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