Tennessee Valley Authority collection of photographs, 1923-1938.

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Tennessee Valley Authority collection of photographs, 1923-1938.

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Tennessee Valley Authority Collection of Photographs consists of 28 black and white photos of various aspects concerning the TVA, including Wheeler Dam, Pickwick Landing Dam, Wilson Dam, machinery, turbine rooms, and workers' homes. Most photographs are not dated. The dated photographs are labeled either 1923 or 1938.

28 photographs : b&w ; 9 x 15 cm. or smaller.

Appalachian State University, ASU

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SNAC Resource ID: 7562916

Appalachian State University, ASU

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Appalachian State University. W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection. Archives.

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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, ...