Aerial photography in agriculture;Japan--Aerial photographs;Agriculture--Japan--Okinawa-ken
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Aerial view of cultivated and idle fields, July 6, 1947
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-119
Scope and Contents
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The pattern of cultivated and idle fields, all small, as land is being re-occupied by Okinawans after close of the campaign, this is the southern part where soils are Regosols and Reddish Brown Lateritic soils. Fields in right foreground are on Regosols from calcareous clays and associated Alluvial soils; borrow pits and most of highlands are underlain by limestone. Far skyline is sawtooth ridge of limestone defended so long by...
Dates:
July 6, 1947
Aerial view of farmers harvesting rice paddies, April 13, 1948
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-109
Scope and Contents
Bedded rice paddies, or "tamboes," near Taira, Motobu peninsula, with sweet potato slips on ridges. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The floodplain shown in G108 with rice paddies on Akamaru soils in the spring when the supply of water permits irrigation on all 'tamboes'."
Dates:
April 13, 1948
Aerial view of rice paddies and sweet potato beds, August 13, 1947
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-108
Scope and Contents
Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Rice paddies, some of which have been bedded for sweet potatoes, in the valley of a small stream near the villages of Kawata and Myagusuku, east coast of northern Okinawa. Two women and a boy are chopping the the soil in one of the paddies, whereas a man has just finished cutting the ripe rice in another. The newly chopped paddies will be used for a second crop of rice this year."
Dates:
August 13, 1947