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Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Steam generating plant

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Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Steam plant

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Steam plant

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Steam plant

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Construction

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Steam generating plant

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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 868.

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tennessee rhea county watts bar dam safety film negatives lot 149 arthur rothstein photo tennessee valley authority office of war information farm security administration united states history industrial history power generator library of congress
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01/01/1942
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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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