T.V.A. helps Wisconsin's agriculture [motion picture] / University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture. [ca. 1935]

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T.V.A. helps Wisconsin's agriculture [motion picture] / University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture. [ca. 1935]

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Wisconsin farmers tour the Tennessee River Valley to see improvements brought about by the Tennessee Valley Authority and fertilization programs.

1 film reel of 1 (1,396 ft.) : si., col. ; 16 mm. arch pos.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper 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, ...