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Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for war work at Stair Vocational High School

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Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Temp. note: owibatch1

Film copy on SIS roll 2, frame 1279.

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tennessee knox county knoxville safety film negatives lot 146 arthur rothstein photo tennessee valley authority stair vocational high school war work office of war information farm security administration united states history workers library of congress
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01/01/1942
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knox county
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Student in the greenhouse

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). The Halls often go boating o the Tennessee River

Girl fills bag with onions, Delta County, Colorado

Jerusalem water works. Pumping station at Solomon's pools

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Machining the rotating band on the shell

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for war production at NYA (National Youth Administration) school

A black and white photo of a man digging in the dirt Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information photo.

A black and white photo of a man in overalls and a hat, Cotton picker, Lauderdale County, Mississippi

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Making forms of the generating plant at TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,00 acre feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

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tennessee knox county knoxville safety film negatives lot 146 arthur rothstein photo tennessee valley authority stair vocational high school war work office of war information farm security administration united states history workers library of congress