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Gasoline storage tanks on 4900 acre farm near Ralls, Texas

Gasoline storage tanks on 4900 acre farm near Ralls, Texas

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Fruit farmer, his wife and son. Placer County, California. He has owned his eighty acre farm for about thirty-four years. "It's pretty but what's it good for? The trees aren't worth the land they stand on," he says. Has Federal Land Bank loan which he will probably not be able to pay and expects to lose his farm soon

Fruit farmer, his wife and son. Placer County, California. He has owne...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. The stator, rotor and exciter of a new generator unit in place at TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Completed units show in the background. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam had an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennesse River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. The stator, rotor and exciter of a new gen...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. Adjusting main exciter brushes on the top of a generator in TVA's hydroelectric plant at Watts Bar Dam on the Tennessee River. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 370,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. Adjusti...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Placing a dynamite charge in a blast hole in bedrock at the site of 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

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Placing a dyn...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Hot tar tank tender at the site of TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. His job is to supply hot tar used to fill cavaties in the bed rock. 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

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Hot tar tank ...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Negro bucket man 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Negro bucket...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. "Big Pete" Ramagos, a rigger 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. "Big Pete" R...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Looking down the partly-finished generator room of a new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Concrete work for the scroll case and draft tube is completed up to the scroll case roof. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam had an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennesse River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Looking down the partly-finished generator...

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Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course school at the University of Wisconsin. Robert A. Janowsky, who is eighteen years old and a high school graduate, comes from a sixty-four acre farm with five acres cultivated. His father works as an automobile mechanic in Chicago

Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course school at the University of Wisc...

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Fifteen acre subsistence homestead developed by FSA (Farm Security Administration) for tiff miner Lawrence Corda. Washington County, Missouri

Fifteen acre subsistence homestead developed by FSA (Farm Security Adm...

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Fruit farmer's wife playing piano. Placer County, California. Because they have not changed the variety of plums and pears which they raise to meet changed market conditions they have gone further and further into debt to the Federal Land Bank and are now on verge of losing their four hundred acre farm on which they have raised fruit on for twenty-five years

Fruit farmer's wife playing piano. Placer County, California. Because ...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A dump cart at the 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A dump cart a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A new shift reports for duty at the 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A new shift r...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A log cofferdam 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A log cofferd...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating servomotor in TVA's hydroelectric plant at Watts Bar Dam on the Tennessee River. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 370,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. Tighten...

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Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Julien H. Chase uses machinery extensively on his 500 acre farm

Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Julien H...

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Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The new 154,000 volt transmission line running from the TVA's Chickamauga Dam. The dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 108,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system. The power that travels along this line serves many useful domestic, agricultural and industrial uses

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (T...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Dumping another dipper load of dirt and rock into a truck at the 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

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Dumping anoth...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. Some of the 1,200 ampere oil circuit breakers in the switchyard of TVA's hydroelectric plant at Watts Bar Dam on the Tennessee River. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 370,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. Some of...

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Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Reed Hall and his wife in thier home in the hill section, before moving to 500 acre dairy farm where Mr. Hall received employment as a result of his training at Rio Grande College

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Reed Hall and his wife in thier home ...

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Some of the fifteen acre subsistence farms developed by the FSA (Farm Security Administration) for tiff miners. Washington County, Missouri

Some of the fifteen acre subsistence farms developed by the FSA (Farm ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New buildings for use of construction workers on Camp Clairborne job. Eight dollars and fifty cents for lodging and board (several people in one room). Property in this section now priced at two hundred dollars per acre. Gas station attendant says there is a different owner every fifty feet. Alexandria, Louisiana

New buildings for use of construction workers on Camp Clairborne job. ...

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Mr. Dan Sampson formerly had a small farm in the Pine Camp Expansion area; now living on a (210) acre farm in South Rutland, New York. It was obtained through the New York defense relocation corporation

Mr. Dan Sampson formerly had a small farm in the Pine Camp Expansion a...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Two-year-old guayule plants. At two years, the guayule contains about nine percent rubber of dry weight. To supply the emergency needs for rubber, these shrubs would have to be planted closer together if a two year harvest cycle were planned. Rubber yield per acre would then closely approximate the yield from mature shrubs

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Two-year-old g...

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Wheat field after the combine has been through. Eureka Flats, Walla Walla County, Washington. Average yield on this land this year thirty-three bushels per acre

Wheat field after the combine has been through. Eureka Flats, Walla Wa...

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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

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Making forms ...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Rigger at the 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Rigger at the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Concrete mixer 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Concrete mix...

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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

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority. I...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Countryside near 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

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Countryside n...

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Zebulon, North Carolina. Feggen Jones lives with fourteen children on an eighty-six acre farm purchased through the FSA (Farm Security Administration). He has two cows, three mules, four hogs, two hundred chickens, two dogs and a cat. He owns a Ford truck and an Oldsmobile sedan. His cash crop is seven acres of tobacco. He also grows five acres of cotton, seven acres of wheat, twelve acres of corn and two acres of vegetable garden. Electricity is supplied by the REA (Rural Electrification Administration). Jones was formerly a sharecropper in this area

Zebulon, North Carolina. Feggen Jones lives with fourteen children on ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Meeker County, Minnesota. Pat McRaith and one of his nieces milking. He is milking seventeen cows this winter on 160 acre farm

Meeker County, Minnesota. Pat McRaith and one of his nieces milking. H...

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Farm wagehand (day laborer, seventy-five cents per day) and his young wife looking at remains of their home (on three acre piece of land owned by his mother) which had just burned to the ground. Greene County, Georgia

Farm wagehand (day laborer, seventy-five cents per day) and his young ...

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Tractor farming on 4900 acre ranch near Ralls, Texas

Tractor farming on 4900 acre ranch near Ralls, Texas

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Brian Drake, a farmer who is moving from the Pine Camp expansion area from a 130 acre farm. Near Leraysville, New York

Brian Drake, a farmer who is moving from the Pine Camp expansion area ...

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This farmer owned one acre of land and small improvised trailer in which he and his wife lived. The only place they could find to move was a small farm they rented which had only a barn on it Near Pacolet, South Carolina region

This farmer owned one acre of land and small improvised trailer in whi...

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Part of the 216 acre agronomy farm at Iowa State College. Used for the study of problems connected with farm crops and soils. Ames, Iowa

Part of the 216 acre agronomy farm at Iowa State College. Used for the...

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Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). 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, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 108,000 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

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (T...

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Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Switchyard of the TVA's Chickamauga Dam, showing insulators and bus wires, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River. The dam has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 108,000 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

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (T...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Caisson construction on 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Caisson const...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Cleaning up bed rock at the site of 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Cleaning up ...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. A partly completed generator in the new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. A long line of completed generators extends back the full length of the room. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam had an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennesse River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. A partly completed generator in the new ad...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Inside the cofferdam of 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Inside the c...

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Gallia County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Hall at their new home on a 500 acre dairy farm. Mr. Hall was placed on this farm after attending the farm labor training school at Rio Grande College

Gallia County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Hall at their new home on a 500...

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Backporch of farmhouse on J.H. and Ellis Cline's one hundred and eight acre farm which they rent from an estate. Northeastern corner of Ringgold County, Iowa

Backporch of farmhouse on J.H. and Ellis Cline's one hundred and eight...

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Railroad track running through apple orchard in Martin County, Indiana. Part of 42,000 acre tract where Navy is constructing ammunition depot

Railroad track running through apple orchard in Martin County, Indiana...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule seedlings in the nursery. Elevated irrigation pipes are installed throughout. There are approximately 70,000 seedlings to the acre in the nursery

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Guayule seedli...

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Mr. Ovegen Sarkisian, Armenian vegetable farmer in West Andover, Massachusetts. He has a five and a half acre farm and has to get outside employment to pull thru the winter

Mr. Ovegen Sarkisian, Armenian vegetable farmer in West Andover, Massa...

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Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Four-year-old guayule plants. An acre of mature shrubs will yield from 1800 to 2500 pounds of rubber

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Four-year-old ...

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The family of Mr. Dan Sampson. The Sampsons are moving out of the Pine Camp expansion area to a 240 acre dairy farm in South Rutland, New York obtained through the New York Defense Relocation Corps. Near Sterlingville, New York

The family of Mr. Dan Sampson. The Sampsons are moving out of the Pine...

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Corn field. Canyon County, Idaho. Idaho is first in acre yield of corn in states west of the Mississippi. Practically all corn grown is used

Corn field. Canyon County, Idaho. Idaho is first in acre yield of corn...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Riggers bust at work on 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Riggers bust ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority. I...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A concrete mixer and the cranes that serve it 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A concrete mi...

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Harvey G. Berthold, twenty years old, was placed on the Colby farm in Wisconsin after completing the farm short course at the University of Wisconsin and has been at his job two weeks at a salary of sixty-five dollars per month. He has two brothers and five sisters on the family's sixty nine acre farm in Ladysmith Brusk County, Wisconsin. They have cultivated fifty-one acres and own nine milk cows and five heifers. The family has been helped by FSA (Farm Security Administration) for several years

Harvey G. Berthold, twenty years old, was placed on the Colby farm in ...

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Tractors clustered around gasoline tanks on 4900 acre farm near Ralls, Texas

Tractors clustered around gasoline tanks on 4900 acre farm near Ralls,...

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Oklahoma farmer and his wife who have moved to California. First they picked cotton as migrant workers, then rented a farm and have now bought the thirty-eight acre farm through the Federal Land Bank. Placer County, California

Oklahoma farmer and his wife who have moved to California. First they ...

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Mr. Rigsbee, owner of a forty acre farm, 1.1 acres of which is in tobacco. Near Farrington, Chatham County, North Carolina

Mr. Rigsbee, owner of a forty acre farm, 1.1 acres of which is in toba...

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Mr. Ovegen Arakelian, Armenian vegetable farmer in West Andover, Massachusetts. Has eleven acre farm which is not sufficient to get them thru the winter months. Their son tries to get work in mills in Lowell, Massachusetts

Mr. Ovegen Arakelian, Armenian vegetable farmer in West Andover, Massa...

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Family living in this converted trailer owned one acre of land adjoining their house. They are moving out of the Camp Croft area to a place which they have rented where there is no house. Near Whitestone, South Carolina region

Family living in this converted trailer owned one acre of land adjoini...

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Mr. Dan Sampson formerly had a small farm in the Pine Camp expansion area; he is now living on a (210) acre farm in South Rutland, New York obtained through the New York defense relocation corporation

Mr. Dan Sampson formerly had a small farm in the Pine Camp expansion a...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Cranes serving the construction crews 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Cranes servi...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A new shift reports for duty at the 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A new shift r...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Pneumatic winch operator 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 forthy-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 TVA system and in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Pneumatic win...

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Machine shed on William Weltis' farm near Boswell, Indiana. This fourteen hundred acre farm is owner-operated. Under a heavy mortgage

Machine shed on William Weltis' farm near Boswell, Indiana. This fourt...

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Octagonal farmhouse on an eighty acre farm near Ottawa, Illinois. This house was built in 1856

Octagonal farmhouse on an eighty acre farm near Ottawa, Illinois. This...

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Fred Maschman, TP Client, discusses problems of his 160 acre farm with FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor. Iowa County, Iowa

Fred Maschman, TP Client, discusses problems of his 160 acre farm with...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the top of the guide bearing in TVA's hydroelectric plant at Watts Bar Dam on the Tennessee River. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 370,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. Checkin...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Plenty of work for dump trucks 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

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Plenty of wor...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A log cofferdam 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A log cofferd...

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Part of the 342 acre animal husbandry experimental farm used for feeding, breeding and management experiments with hogs, beef, cattle and sheep. Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa

Part of the 342 acre animal husbandry experimental farm used for feedi...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Excavating within the cofferdam of 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Excavating wi...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Cranes that serve construction crews 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Cranes that ...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Tamping a dynamite charge in bedrock at the site of 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

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Tamping a dyn...

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Madison, Wisconsin. Farm short course school at the University of Wisconsin. Beldon Peterson, nineteen years old, studying plows in a farm machinery class. Of his three brothers, one is in the army and the other two work in the family's eighty acre twelve cow farm in Webster, Wisconsin

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Feed barn on 4900 acre farm near Ralls, Texas

Feed barn on 4900 acre farm near Ralls, Texas

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There are 465 hogs on the 1885 acre Bois d'Arc Cooperative farm. Osage Farms, Missouri

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New cafe with trailers and tents in the rear near Forrest Hill. Lots are for sale everywhere and land near Camp Claiborne, which was formerly of very little value and difficult to sell is now in great demand at two hundred dollars per acre. Near Alexandria, Louisiana

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Office and garden plots at Hazlehurst Farms Inc. Each family has a two acre garden. Hazlehurst, Georgia

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Harvesting wheat with a combine, getting about forty bushels per acre, a bumper wheat crop. About eight miles north of Culbertson, on the road to Froid, Montana

Harvesting wheat with a combine, getting about forty bushels per acre,...

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Armenian woman living on a five-and-a-half acre vegetable farm which she runs with her son-in-law and his family. They have to rely on any outside work they can get to live thru the winter. West Andover, Massachusetts

Armenian woman living on a five-and-a-half acre vegetable farm which s...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Countryside near 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

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Countryside n...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Loading downstream from 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Loading downs...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Early construction work on 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Early constru...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Looking upstream from 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

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Looking upstr...

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Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Julien H. Chase uses machinery extensively on his 500 acre farm

Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Julien H...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A concrete mixer and the crane that serve it, 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 TVA system dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A concrete mi...

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Buildings on Henry Sheffels' 6,000 acre mechanized wheat farm. Cascade County, Montana

Buildings on Henry Sheffels' 6,000 acre mechanized wheat farm. Cascade...

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Mr. Ralph Reitz, member Tri-County Farmers Co-op Market of Du Bois, Pennsylvania. Works in the mine and runs a 125 acre farm near Falls Creek, Pennsylvania

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Bringing in maple sap to the sugar house. Frank H. Shurtleff farm, North Bridgewater, Vermont. He has a 400 acre farm originally purchased by his grandfather in 1840. He raises sheep, cows, cuts lumber. He has been making maple syrup for about thirty-five years, and "sugaring" usually brings in about one thousand dollars annually. Because of the deep snow, this year he only tapped 1000 trees, instead of 2000. He expects to make about 300 to 500 gallons this year

Bringing in maple sap to the sugar house. Frank H. Shurtleff farm, Nor...

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Part of Bull tract near Marysville, California. Houses set on half and one acre lot are sold to workers who build their houses on them. No payment on principal are made for the first four years; interest payments start at three percent and go up to six percent by one percent increase yearly. At the end of four years payments on principal are due at rate of twenty to twenty-five percent annually. Land sells from two nudred to five hundred dollars per acre. Many migrants are settling in such tracts as these

Part of Bull tract near Marysville, California. Houses set on half and...

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These houses were on an eight acre plot where eight Negro families were resettled by a landowner whose plantation was to be flooded by the Santee-Cooper navigation project. Near Moncks Corner, South Carolina

These houses were on an eight acre plot where eight Negro families wer...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. A coupling between a turbine and a generator shaft at TVA's hydroelectric plant at Watts Bar Dam on the Tennessee River. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 370,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. A coupl...

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Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Generator hall of the powerhouse at the TVA's Chickamauga Dam. The dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 108,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system. The power that goes out over its 154,000 volt transmission line serves many useful domestic, agricultural and industrial uses

Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (T...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A concrete mixer and the cranes that serve it 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A concrete mi...

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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Construction of Douglas Dam. "Big Pete" Ramagos, rigger at the TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River, served overseas in the last war, with the 90th Division, 345th machine gun company. He is a Greek who speaks with a Southern drawl. 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 TVA in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Construction of Douglas Dam. "Big Pe...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. "Big Pete" Ramogos, rigger at TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. Served overseas in the last war with the ninetieth Division, 345th Machine Gun Company. A Greek who speaks with a Southern drawl. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long with 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. "Big Pete" R...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A full dipper load of rock and dirt from early excavations at the 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

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. A full dipper...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Excavating within the cofferdam of 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 TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Excavating wi...

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