Correspondence and working material, 1938-1942.

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Correspondence and working material, 1938-1942.

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These records document the Work Projects Administration Education Project in McCracken County. The records include forms; correspondence of Harry Ford, area supervisor for the Education Project; Tennessee Valley Authority test materials; and a bibliography of adult education.

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky State Archives

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United States. Works Progress Administration. Kentucky.

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United States. Work Projects Administration. Kentucky. Education Project.

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Tennessee Valley authority

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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...