Tennessee Valley Authority photographs, 1933-1956.

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Tennessee Valley Authority photographs, 1933-1956.

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Glossy prints of photographs of Tennessee Valley Authority projects. Photographs show dams, spillways, electrical power stations, hydroelectric power plants, steam plants, and reservoirs. Several diagrams of dams and maps of the Tennessee Valley region are included with the photographs. Some of the photographs were published in John H. Kyle's The building of TVA: an illustrated history.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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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, ...

Kyle, John H.

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