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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Loading out rock for crushing into aggregate for concrete work 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 1,330,000 acre-feet this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the Tennessee Valley Authority system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Well on tenant farmer's place near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Loading out rock for crushing into aggregate for concrete work 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 1,330,000 acre-feet this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the Tennessee Valley Authority system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

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Production. Zinc. A bucket of zinc ore ready for hoisting from a mine serving a large concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two men working in a mine. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

Production. Zinc. Tending a rock crusher at a large zinc concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. Tending a rock crusher at a large zinc concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. Surveyors in a zinc mine which serves a large concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. Workings in a zinc mine serving a large concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. Loading zinc ore in a mine serving a large concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

Production. Zinc. A bucket of zinc ore ready for hoisting from a mine serving a large concentrator. From the Eagle-Picher plant near Cardin, Oklahoma, come great quantities of zinc and lead to serve many important purposes in the war effort

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a cardinal, Catholic church priest, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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01/01/1943
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Henle, Fritz, 1909-1993, photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Holland, Ottawa County, Michigan

Production. Copper. A thickener at a large copper concentrator of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona. This plant supplies great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Miner using automatic mucking machine to load ore cars in a copper mine

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA) volunteer headquarters in Nyack

Sheep, Ottawa County, Kansas. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

A black and white photo of a dirt road, Spiritualist camp near Minneapolis, Kansas

Negro sharecropper house. "They treat us better here than where we did live. No privy in sight, had to get water from the spring, so far away that the man was gone twenty minute getting a bucket of water." Person County, North Carolina

Water is precious on the Taos land use project at New Mexico. Aridity of the land and absence of wells make this region suited only for grazing purposes

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Holland, Ottawa County, Michigan

Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to make way for a bus line, it means additional tons of steel for the defense of democracy. Unused trolley and railroad and railway equipment and rails will provide much of the scrap steel needed for defense production

Loading a king hoist in hold [of iron ore ship] - showing pickmen at work, Conneaut, Ohio

Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other military facilities which requires moving large quantities of earth necessitates equipment identified as earth movers. Earth movers use huge rubber tires like these, some of which cost as much as $2,500 each. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

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oklahoma ottawa county cardin nitrate negatives production zinc bucket ore zinc ore mine concentrator eagle picher plant eagle picher plant quantities purposes war effort farm security administration 1940 s united states history library of congress