Tennessee Valley Authority: photographs, 1923-1936.

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Tennessee Valley Authority: photographs, 1923-1936.

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Includes photographs taken between 1923-1936 of Wheeler Dam, Pickwick Dam, Wilson Dam, machinery, turbine rooms, workers' homes, and other aspects concerning the Tennessee Valley Authority.

28 items 9 x 17 cm. or smaller.

Appalachian State University, ASU

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Appalachian State University, ASU

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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, ...