Photographs, printed material, and volumes chiefly relating to construction of the Beauharnois Hydroelectric Power Station in Quebec Province, Canada. Included are over 1300 photographs which show project's development from beginning to completion; project's weekly bound memoranda of operations from 1929-1933; and many reports, specifications, blueprints, and other plans generated from this project. Also included in this collection is a small amount of material on the Duke Power Company. One volume deals with farming problems, especially erosion, in western North Carolina and southern Appalachia, and contains pictures of these areas.
