155 photographs, negatives, and slides from Wayne D.
Criddle's irrigation and water conservation work. Also contains a publicity photo from
the United States Department of Agriculture, which includes President Lyndon B. Johnson
and Secretary of Agriculture, Orville L. Freeman
Repository:
Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Photograph Collection
Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-3000 Phone: 435 797-2663 Fax: 435 797-2880 Email: scweb@usu.edu
Languages:
Collection materials are in English.
Sponsor:
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant,
2007-2008
Biographical Note
Wayne Dewey Criddle was on born May 7, 1914 in Syracuse, Utah. Criddle received his BS
in Civil Engineering from Utah State University and a MS in Civil Engineering from the
University of Wisconsin. He married Erma Ellen Sheffield on June 16, 1934.
Criddle worked as a professor of engineering at Utah State University for 20 years,
served as the Utah State Engineer from 1957 to 1965, was the president of the
Clyde-Criddle Woodward, Inc., Consulting Engineers of Salt Lake City, as well as a
consulting engineer for Harza Engineering Company International. During the course of
his career Criddle was responsible for establishing water requirements on irrigated
lands in the lower Colorado River Basin, which were subsequently adopted by the US
Supreme Court in Arizona vs. California. Criddle was
employed by the USDA and the US Bureau of Indian Affairs to work on irrigation, water
conservation, and related projects throughout the Western United States and in many
countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia and Central and South
America. He served as Chairman of the United States Committee of the International
Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) and as a Vice President of the ICID during
1970 and 1973.
Criddle was the author and co-author of hundreds of publications, including Conservation Irrigation (1950), Methods
for Evaluating Irrigation Systems (1956), Irrigation
Training Guide (1957), Utah's Future Water
Problems (1958), and was the co-founder of the Blaney-Criddle Method, a
scientific approach to gage computed water requirements. He died on November 29, 1996 in
Salt Lake City.
Content Description
The Wayne D. Criddle photograph collection consists of 155 images removed from the Wayne
D. Criddle manuscript collection MSS 307. The photographs are mostly agricultural prints
from Mr. Criddle's irrigation and water conservation work. Also included is a publicity
photo from the United States Department of Agriculture, which includes President Lyndon
B. Johnson and Secretary of Agriculture, Orville L. Freeman.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access : Restrictions
Open to public research.
Restrictions on Use : Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of
the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her
transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents
from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Permission to publish material from the Wayne D. Criddle photograph collection must
be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections
Department Head.
Preferred Citation :
Wayne D. Criddle photograph collection, 1960-1975. (P0353). Utah State University.
Special Collections & Archives Department.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
Arranged in numeric sequence according to Box, Folder, and Item
Acquisition Information :
The materials in this collection were donated to USU Special Collections and Archives in
1997 by Erma Sheffield Criddle.
Processing Note :
Photographs removed from the Wayne D. Criddle papers (COLL MSS 307). Register completed
by Jessica Alexander, November 2006.
1:01:01: Wayne Criddle, Charles Sohan and Jim Halferty
in front of a 6-place, 240 Cessna, used in flying over the Black Bush and
Topakuma Project lands, May 4, 1970. John Fitt as the pilot
1:01:02: Control gate on canal at Berbice
River
1:01:03: Control gates and pumping station on
Berbice/Canje Canal at Cnaje River
1:01:04: Control gates and pumping station on
Berbice/Canje Canal at Cnaje River
1:01:05: Canal and drain near divider on main
canal
1:01:06: Control gate on South Canal
1:01:07: Drain lateral emptying into main
drain
1:01:08: Control gate on lateral canal
1:01:09: Drain plugged by silt shows inability to
discharge to the ocean
1:01:10: Drain showing silt bar at center. Water in the
drain is well above ocean level while tide is down
1:01:11: Drainage channel erroded and then filled with
silt that is solid
1:01:12: Drainage channel erroded and then filled with
silt that is solid
1:01:13: Residents of Black Bush Polder
1:01:14: Cattle being moved across rice stubble
field
1:01:15: Rice stubble in poorly drained
field
1:01:16: School building in Black Bush
Polder
1:01:17: Jim Halferty looking at discarded flood gates
and silty beach
1:01:18: New flood gates and pumping station on
drain
1:01:19: Georgetown from the air with the round Hotel
Pegasus in the lower left
1:06:01: Figure 1: General distribution of peat and muck
soils in the United States
1:06:02: Figure 2: Map of the Everglades Agricultural
Area showing the location of cross-section "A-A" as shown in Figure
3
1:06:03: Figure 3: Cross-sectional view through the
upper Everglades along line "A-A" showing original surface elevations, and the
elevation in 1940 as shown by topographic surveys
1:06:04: Figure 4: Rate of subsidence for organinc soils
upon the depth to the water table
1:06:05: Figure 5: Straight drop spillway with stop
logs
1:06:06: Culvert equipped with flash boards to control
water in lateral ditch
1:06:07: Discharge pipe from pump and gate installed for
water control, Florida
1:06:08: Pump operated by gasoline engine for water
control. Water pumped from large lateral in foreground to farm lateral,
Florida
1:06:09: Pump installation arrange for 2-way operation,
Florida
1:06:10: Pumping plant with 3 pumping units for drainage
of Belle Glade Muck Experiment Station, Florida
1:06:11: Impeller for axial-flow propellor pump.
Reversal of flow in pump is obtained by installation of impeller shown and
removal of similar impeller having reversed blades
1:06:12: Pumping installation in canal serving lands of
U.S. Sugar Complany, west of Belle Glade, Florida. Four large units to left
remove drainage water and smaller unit to right
1:06:13: Water hyacinths floating on water in ditch
create a maintenance problem. Water is high in ditch for subirrigation,
Florida
1:06:14: Harvesting celery on muck soils. Processing
unit for washing and packing celery in shipping boxes
1:06:15: Mole drain machine set for 33 inch depth of
mole, Florida
1:08:01: Secretary of Agriculture, Orville L. Freeman
and a team of agriculture specialists from the Presidential Mission on
Agriculture to Vietnam, make their report to President Lyndon B. Johnson at the
White House, Washington D.C
2:01:01: Near East and South Asia Third Regional
Irrigation Seminar, Lahore, Pakistan. Photo of Lt. General Mohammad Azam Khan,
Minister for Irrigation and Agriculture, standing with other region chairs
