Photograph of a field of raspberries with a small child standing in the background in the early 20th century. The text on the slide notes that 'fruits, vegetables and forage all grow well under irrigation.'

Image of a painting of a man standing next to an irrigation pump spouting water on Richardson's Farm near Barcaldine, [Queensland, Australia] in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Photograph of a man standing next to his horse with an artesian bore in the foreground in Richmond Downs, [Queensland, Australia] in the early 20th century.

Photograph of a small waterfall in Feyoum, Egypt that is was used for power and irrigation in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Photograph of an Indian man using a karah (a leveller) drawn by two cows. Part of the Survey of the India Office, Calcutta, 1902.

Photograph of two men standing on a pahata or wooden plank 'which drivers stand on it to increase the pressure' on the cattle that are harnessed to it. Part of the Survey of the India Office, Calcutta, 190[?].

Illustration of a split log drag with text beneath explaining how it is constructed and how it should be used when moving dirt.

Photograph of Thurulgoonah Run, number 11 bore in a wooded field with two Maori men standing nearby near Wooroorooka [Queensland, Australia] in the early 20th century.

Illustration of a section of the Goulburn River weir showing the tunnel and tunnel-gate, flood-gate, flood-gate chamber and flood-gate, piers, bridging and gearing which was part of the Victorian Water Supply. National Irrigation Works, Goulburn District, Goulburn River Weir, [Australia] in the early 20th century.

Photograph of the rear view from the East bank of the river at the Victorian water supply, National Irrigation Works in the Goulburn district, Golburn River Weir in Victoria, Australia in the early 20th century.