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Uncle Sam's monetary brains. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. The government's experts on money matters met with Senate and House leaders today to discuss legislation to be submitted to the 75th session of Congress. A discussion was made at the conference to extend the life of important federal monetary lending agencies, and also, to move in giving the President authority to discontinue the R.F.C. at anytime the conditions warrant. In the photograph, left to right: Jesse Jones, Chairman of the Treasury; Senator Pat Harrison, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; and Marriner Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board

Uncle Sam's monetary brains. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. The government'...

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[Emily Price Post, American writer and authority on etiquette, three-quarter length portrait, facing front] / Marceau, New York.

[Emily Price Post, American writer and authority on etiquette, three-q...

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General Counsel of Civil Aeronautics Authority. Washington, D.C., Aug. 22. Charles Guthrie, recently named General Counsel of the new Civil Aeronautics Authority, photographed at his desk today shortly after taking the oath of office

General Counsel of Civil Aeronautics Authority. Washington, D.C., Aug....

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This interesting combination of gauge house and navigation lightpole with service ladders and handrails developed into decorative features is typical of TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) navigation projects all up and down the river

This interesting combination of gauge house and navigation lightpole w...

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Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11/3/37

Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan St...

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May get TVA post. Washington, D.C., Dec. 28. President Roosevelt has indicated he will nominate Senator James P. Pope of Idaho, as a member of the Tennessee Valley Authority. A Democrat, Pope was unseated in Idaho's Democratic Primary last summer, 12/28/38

May get TVA post. Washington, D.C., Dec. 28. President Roosevelt has i...

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The countryside near the Tennessee Valley Authority dam site, Douglas Dam vicinity, Tenn.

The countryside near the Tennessee Valley Authority dam site, Douglas ...

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[...] says NLRD criticism precipitated [...] by lack of federal mediation service. [Washington], D.C., May 15. William M Leiseron, [member of?] the NLRB, told the Senate Education and [...] that much of the existing criticism of [...] could have been avoided by a more [...] federal mediation service. He caused the [committee?] which is holding hearings on the Wagner(?) Amendments(?) proposed recently, a good laugh [...] out that authority of the board ends [...] agree to bargain collectively. 'The [...] of the board ends there. The act then [...] ending of a happy life thereafter. [Anyone who is?] married knows that is not the whole story

[...] says NLRD criticism precipitated [...] by lack of federal mediat...

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New Brunswick Housing Authority. Lee Terrace detail

New Brunswick Housing Authority. Lee Terrace detail

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Dale Homes, Portsmouth, Virginia. USHA (U.S. Housing Agency)-financed through local housing authority

Dale Homes, Portsmouth, Virginia. USHA (U.S. Housing Agency)-financed...

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Two-family unit in Merrimac Villiage. A defense housing project of the Norfolk housing authority

Two-family unit in Merrimac Villiage. A defense housing project of the...

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Portion of the Swanson Homes development in Virginia which are nearing completion. These units are being constructed by the local housing authority of Portsmouth with funds advanced by the USHA (U.S. Housing Agency)

Portion of the Swanson Homes development in Virginia which are nearing...

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Defense housing. Hale Homes, Portsmouth, Virginia. A 300-unit project to house civilian workers employed at the Norfolk Navy Yard. These homes, constructed at a cost of $1,114,748 by the USHA (U.S. Housing Authority) through the local housing authority, are permanent construction and are expected to continue after the emergency as part of the local authority's low-rent housing project. Rents are divided into three groups which run from a low of $19 to a high of $39 a month. The project completed on February, 1941, consists almost entirely of apartment-type dwellings

Defense housing. Hale Homes, Portsmouth, Virginia. A 300-unit project ...

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Modern kitchen in a Tennessee Valley Authority house. Kitchen equipment for one of the new demountable houses, which the TVA is building for defense workers in the Muscle Shoals area in northern Alabama, includes electric range, water heater, and refrigerator. The TVA, acting as an agent of the Federal Works Administrator, is building

Modern kitchen in a Tennessee Valley Authority house. Kitchen equipmen...

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Bayamon, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Tent colony of twenty-five families who had been squatters on land taken over the Navy. They are to be resettled by the land authority

Bayamon, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Tent colony of twenty-five families w...

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Making a weld on a filter head in the ammonia synthesis system at the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high- pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Ma...

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Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. A pipe fitter measures up and squares up as a new pipeline is fitted at the Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

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Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. A workman on a cofferdam of the new Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts. Note safety precaution in the form of a life preserver strapped to this worker

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

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Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Electric refrigeration makes possible the storage of perishable food products in this community locker room

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Electric refr...

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Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Electric switchyard

Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Electric swit...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Transmission line towers and high-tension lines that carry current generated at the TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has 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 Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Transmission line towers and high-tension ...

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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. Section of one of the switchyards from which high-tension lines carry generated at the TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has 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 Tennessee River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Section of one of the switchyards from whi...

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Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Collecting anopheles mosquitoes in malaria control area

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Collecting ano...

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Douglas Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Worker

Douglas Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Worker

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Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Julien H. Case uses an electric shaver and fluorescent light in the bathroom of his farm home

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

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Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Construction

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority...

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Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Electric switchyard

Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Electric swit...

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Douglas Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Laying track

Douglas Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Laying track

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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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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A water saturating tower in the hydrogen section of the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen, and is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A ...

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Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Construction

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority...

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Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Hall receives first aid at aluminum plant where he works

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Hall receives f...

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Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Cows are milked by electricity on the Broadacre Dairy Farm

Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Cows are mi...

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Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Excursion steamer in lock at Wheeler Dam, Alabama

Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Excursion ste...

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Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Excursion steamer from Cincinnatti in lock at Wheeler Dam, Alabama

Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Excursion ste...

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Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Julien H. Case inspecting a terrace. Sharecropper's house in the background

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

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Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Coffer Dam construction

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority...

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Production. Steam power plant equipment. Holes are drilled in a waterwall header for a high-pressure boiler. Steam boilers and other power-house equipment to supplement the hydroelectric installations of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system are produced in the large Chattanooga shops of the Combustion Engineering Company

Production. Steam power plant equipment. Holes are drilled in a waterw...

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

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for ...

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Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. A workman on a cofferdam of the new Fort Loudoun Dam, furthest upstream of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this dam will create a 15,000-acre lake reaching fifty-five miles upstream to the city of Knoxville. The reservoir will have a useful storage capacity of 126,000 acre-feet. Power installation of 64,000 kilowatts is authorized, with a possible ultimate of 96,000 kilowatts. Note safety precaution in the form of a life preserver strapped to this worker

Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...

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War Production Board Administrative Division "flexible" master organization chart of the WPB on which the offices and lines of authority are designated by movable tabs for organizational changes

War Production Board Administrative Division "flexible" master organiz...

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Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Julien H. Case watching his wife cook on her electric stove

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

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Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Hall receives first aid at aluminum plant where he works

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Hall receives f...

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Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Safety meeting

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Safety meeting

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Applying lagging on low-pressure heat interchanger piping in the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high- pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Ap...

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Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Home of Kenneth C. Hall

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Home of Kenneth...

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

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). The Halls often...

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

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

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Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. (left to right) Paul L. Imes, Samuel C. Watkins, and George W. Richardson are employed as laboratory technicians by TVA at its plant at Muscle Shoals. They are doing high-grade sub-professional work and are in training for professional positions

Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. (left to right)...

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Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Defense home built by TVA

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Defense home bu...

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Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Nitrogen determination apparatus in TVA research at University of Tennessee

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Nitrogen dete...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. An electric welder employed on the erection of stacks and breechings at TVA's Watts Bar steam plant. This plant will supplement the big hydroelectric installation at Watts Bar Dam, which has an authorized output of 90,000 kilowatts, and a possible ultimate of 150,000 kilowatts. Each of the four big turbo-generators in the steam plant is rated at 60,000 kilowatts

Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. An elec...

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Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Riveter

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority...

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Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Learning to use an electric iron at Farragut Agricultural School

Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Learning to...

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

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

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Production. Steam power plant equipment. An electric arc-welder runs a seam on a new high-pressure boiler. Steam boilers and other power-house equipment to supplement the hydroelectric installations of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system are produced in the large Chattanooga shops of the Combustion Engineering Company

Production. Steam power plant equipment. An electric arc-welder runs a...

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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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Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Kenneth Hall gives daughter Peggy a shower with garden hose in front of their TVA defense home

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Kenneth Hall gi...

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Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Cattle on the Julien H. Case farm

Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Cattle o...

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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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San Francisco, Calif., June 1942 - An early comer, part of the first contingent of 664 residents of Japanese ancestry to be evacuated from San Francisco, later to be housed in war relocation authority centers for the duration

San Francisco, Calif., June 1942 - An early comer, part of the first c...

Japanese American boy seated, full-length, on duffel bag, facing right. U.S. War Relocation Authority. No. A-84. Forms part of: Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress).

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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San Pedro, Calif. Apr. 1942--Residents of Japanese ancestry being moved from Los Angeles harbor before their eventual resettlement in war relocation authority centers

San Pedro, Calif. Apr. 1942--Residents of Japanese ancestry being move...

Women and children in back of truck. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress). US War Relocation Authority. No. B-28.

Washington, D.C. Sister Aquinas teaching a lesson in practical radio operations to the Sisters attending her Civil Aeronautics Authority course for instructors at Catholic University

Washington, D.C. Sister Aquinas teaching a lesson in practical radio o...

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Newark Housing Authority, 57 Sussex Ave., Newark, New Jersey. Hyatt Court doorway

Newark Housing Authority, 57 Sussex Ave., Newark, New Jersey. Hyatt Co...

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Newark Housing Authority, 57 Sussex Ave., Newark, New Jersey. Hyatt Court, general view

Newark Housing Authority, 57 Sussex Ave., Newark, New Jersey. Hyatt Co...

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Newark Housing Authority, 57 Sussex Ave., Newark, New Jersey. Baxter living room

Newark Housing Authority, 57 Sussex Ave., Newark, New Jersey. Baxter l...

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Houses for Britain. Installing windows in kitchen of prefabricated temporary emergency house of the type which the United States will ship to Great Britain under lend-lease. Model house erected by the Federal Public Housing Authority at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C.

Houses for Britain. Installing windows in kitchen of prefabricated tem...

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Houses for Britain. Workmen about to put a panel in place in the model house erected by the Federal Public Housing Authority at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. This house is of the type of pre-fabricated temporary emergency house which the United States plans to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease. War Production Board has allotted materials ot FEA for 30,000 of these houses. The Federal Public Housing Authority of National Housing Agency will undertake procurement of these units

Houses for Britain. Workmen about to put a panel in place in the model...

Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI C... More

Houses for Britain. Living room looking towards front entrance, and left to kitchen entrance of prefabricated model house erected by the Federal Public Housing Authority at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. of the type of temporary, emergency dwelling which it is planned to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease. Twenty-four feet square, it contains two bedrooms, living room, kitchen and bathroom

Houses for Britain. Living room looking towards front entrance, and le...

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Houses for Britain. Workmen assembling pre-fabricated temporary emergency house of the type which it is planned to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease, at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. This two-bedroom dwelling was designed to utilize a minimum of critical materials, including lumber. Materials have been allotted to FEA by War Production Board, and the Federal Public Housing Authority of the National Housing Agency will undertake procurement of the houses

Houses for Britain. Workmen assembling pre-fabricated temporary emerge...

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Houses for Britain. View from one of the two bedrooms throught small hall to bathroom, in model house erected by the Federal Public Housing Authority at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C of the type which it is planned to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease. Designed for maximum privacy, the two bedrooms open off small hall from living room. Bathroom also off same hall. Closet doors are to be omitted in England

Houses for Britain. View from one of the two bedrooms throught small h...

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New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Administration building, East Brunswick, New Jersey, view from southeast corner

New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Administration building, East Brunswick...

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New Jersey Turnpike Authority, office building, New Brunswick. Exterior general, p.m.

New Jersey Turnpike Authority, office building, New Brunswick. Exterio...

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Report on general survey of British Somaliland 1944 (Colonial development & welfare act. Economic survey & reconnaissance), Published under the authority of the Military government, Somaliland protectorate, 19th May 1945...

Report on general survey of British Somaliland 1944 (Colonial developm...

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. The illustrative matter is folded in pocket. Prepared by the Survey dept. cf. Introd. Bibliography : p. 12. AACR2 : 651/2

Alexandria Housing Authority, Cameron Virginialley Housing, Alexandria, Independent City, Virginia

Alexandria Housing Authority, Cameron Virginialley Housing, Alexandria...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1073 Survey number: HABS VA-1371

A general instructer; or, The office, duty, and authority of justices of the peace, sheriffs, coroners, constables, jailors, and jurymen, with precedents, suited to every case that can that can possibly arise, in the discharge of the duties in either of those offices. The whole alphabetically digested. To which is added a guide, to Superior, and County court clerks; an epitome of Blackstone's Commentaries; law maxims; remedies by action, and law fictions

A general instructer; or, The office, duty, and authority of justices ...

A general instructer; or, The office, duty, and authority of justices of the peace, sheriffs, coroners, constables, jailors, and jurymen, with precedents, suited to every case that can that can possibly arise, in the discharge of the duties in either of those offices. The whole alphabetically digested. To which is added a guide, to Superior, and County court clerks; an epitome of Blackstone's Commentaries; law maxims; remedies by action, and law fictions

A general instructer; or, The office, duty, and authority of justices ...

Guntersville Dam and powerhouse. Closeup view of powerhouse. Note texture of concrete on electrical bay which is typical of most TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) projects. Pattern is produced by alternating directions of grain in adjoining form panels. Rough-sawn lumber is used to make grain more pronounced. Heavy texture conceals color and surface irregularities of concrete and will become particularly valuable as concrete ages. Office floor is above flood level and has continuous glass brick strip

Guntersville Dam and powerhouse. Closeup view of powerhouse. Note text...

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General planning. This is a photograph of a display panel typical of the manner in which the Authority puts its case for comprehensive planning before the public. Explanatory material is placed at all powerhouse reception rooms, visitors' buildings and other public contact points. The increased understanding of natural resources, the techniques for their utilization and general planning for human welfare are considered valuable by-products of the Authority's program in themselves

General planning. This is a photograph of a display panel typical of t...

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Bridges. Highway bridge across an arm of Norris Lake which has been developed by the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), with local cooperation, for recreational uses. Note that, as on all TVA bridges where view is of importance, the parapet consists of a solid portion and an open rail to permit good view

Bridges. Highway bridge across an arm of Norris Lake which has been de...

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Pickwick Dam. Reception room of a powerhouse which is somewhat difficult to reach (therefore, supplementary visitors' facilities were developed at the opposite end of the dam in separate buildings). Rest rooms, elevators, stairway, overlook balcony, and control room can be viewed either through glass doors from this room or from large plate glass openings of the overlook balcony. Terrazzo floor and base, burlap covered plaster walls, acoustic plaster ceiling. Graphic display is in a shallow wall niche between control room doors; top line shows three functions of projects in cross-sectional perspectives; photographs elaborate on TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) program; map of valley is applied to specially constructed movable table

Pickwick Dam. Reception room of a powerhouse which is somewhat difficu...

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Power station. Tennessee Valley Authority development

Power station. Tennessee Valley Authority development

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New Brunswick Housing Authority. Reed Court, apartment J, kitchen

New Brunswick Housing Authority. Reed Court, apartment J, kitchen

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Housing. Manitowac, Wisconsin. Three youthful residents of the 400-unit federal housing project, in Manitowac, Wisconsin, investigate the merits of a neighbor's bird bath. Operated by the National Housing Authority (NHA), this project includes 400 prefabricated demountable, steel channel frame and plywood units, which helps to alleviate the city's housing shortage. Principal residents of the project are naval and civilian employees of Manitowac's shipyards

Housing. Manitowac, Wisconsin. Three youthful residents of the 400-uni...

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Manati (vicinity), Puerto Rico. A gathering of FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrowers to whom land was being distributed under the land authority act

Manati (vicinity), Puerto Rico. A gathering of FSA (Farm Security Admi...

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Power and conservation. Chickamauga Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Insulators and bus 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, 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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Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). The Halls often go boating o the Tennessee River

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). The Halls often...

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

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for ...

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Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Virginialley Authority (TVirginia). Julien H. Case's farmhands load T Virginia superphosphate fertilizer. Case uses it to improve the soil on his 500 acre farm

Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Virginialley Authority (TVirgini...

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Parker, Ariz. Apr. 1942. constructing buildings for Japanese-American evacuees at the War relocation authority center on the Colorado River Indian Reservation

Parker, Ariz. Apr. 1942. constructing buildings for Japanese-American ...

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Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Construction work

Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority...

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Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Edie Butter, farmboy

Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Edie Butter...

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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. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. One of four tube-generating units which produce electric power at TVA's Watts Bar steam plant. This plant will supplement the big hydroelectric installations at Watts Bar Dam, which has an authorized output of 90,000 kilowatts, and a possible ultimate of 150,000 kilowatts. Each of the four big turbo-generators in the steam plant is rated at 60,000 kilowatts

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

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Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Lock

Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Lock

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Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Kenneth C. Hall, wife and daughter rowing on the Tennessee River

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Kenneth C. Hall...

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