Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority. Insulators and transmission wires in the switchyard of the TVA's Chickamauga Dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River. The dam has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system. The power that passes through this switchyard serves many useful domestic, agricultural and industrial uses
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
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
Film copy on SIS roll 31, frame 1561.
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tennessee
hamilton county
chickamauga dam
safety film negatives
lot 1899
alfred t palmer
united states office of war information
photo
dam
power
tva chickamauga dam
tennessee river system
office of war information
farm security administration
united states history
river system
power lines
library of congress
Date
01/01/1942
Location
chickamauga dam
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain