Tennessee Valley Authority oral history [videorecording], 1984.

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Tennessee Valley Authority oral history [videorecording], 1984.

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Videorecordings of two Omni special edition programs. Tape 1 contains a January 30, 1984, interview with Mark Winter, records officer and historian of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The interview was in regard to a travelling exhibit about TVA which was on display at the Reece Museum on the campus of East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tenn. Among the topics discussed were the history of the Tennessee Valley Authority in Tennessee, sources of documents for the exhibit, and what types of records TVA saves and the preservation of records.

2 videocassettes (30 min. ea.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in.

East Tennessee State University, TET

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East Tennessee State University, TET

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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, ...

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