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[University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.]

[University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.]

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Dams under construction. Kentucky Dam, close to the mouth of the Tennessee River, will be one of the biggest projects of the Authority and will back the water up for a distance of 185 miles. It will be completed in 1944. This photograph shows a partial view of the lock operation building, with the commanding officer's work space, shaped somewhat like a control cabin in the foreground on the second floor. The near wing contains visitors' rest rooms while the lock switchboard is in the far wing, entered through the door in the foreground of the picture. Visitors are admitted to the various roof levels to watch the locking operation

Dams under construction. Kentucky Dam, close to the mouth of the Tenne...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. A generator winder works at the winding of a generator stator in a new addition to 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. A generator winder works at the winding of...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction activities on a new generating unit in the new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. The walls and a portion of the intake can be seen. 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. Construction activities on a new generatin...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Pole line carrying 110-volt current generated at 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. Pole line carrying 110-volt current genera...

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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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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. 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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Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Oilostatic Transmission System, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Oilostatic Transmission System, Span...

Significance: As generating capacity at Wilson Dam grew through the early TVA years, new methods of generator cable installation came into practice. One of these new cable installations, the Oilostatic System,... More

Keller Memorial Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at U.S. Highway 31, Decatur, Morgan County, AL

Keller Memorial Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at U.S. Highway 31, D...

Significance: The Keller Bridge is the most elaborate of all Alabama's concrete bridges. It is one of only two bascule bridges in the state, and the only remaining one on the Tennessee River. It is named for ... More

Tennessee River Railroad Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at Alabama Highway 43, Florence, Lauderdale County, AL

Tennessee River Railroad Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at Alabama H...

Significance: One of the oldest combination vehicular and railroad bridges in Alabama, the Tennessee River Railroad Bridge played a significant role in the early agricultural and industrial development of the T... More

Scott Fitzhugh Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at State Highway 76, Paris, Henry County, TN

Scott Fitzhugh Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at State Highway 76, P...

Significance: The bridge is significant as a representative example of the Pratt and Parker through truss types as well as for its historical associations with the State highway system and toll bridge program i... More

Scott Fitzhugh Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at State Highway 76, Paris, Henry County, TN

Scott Fitzhugh Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at State Highway 76, P...

Significance: The bridge is significant as a representative example of the Pratt and Parker through truss types as well as for its historical associations with the State highway system and toll bridge program i... More

Bridgeport Swing Span Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Jackson County, AL

Bridgeport Swing Span Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Ja...

Significance: The Bridgeport Swing Span Railroad Bridge embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period and method of construction. Its method of construction (pin-connected) is rare for a swing bri... More

Chattanooga and the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain

Chattanooga and the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain

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Chattanooga and the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain

Chattanooga and the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain

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Army bridge across the Tennessee River at Chattanooga, L8121

Army bridge across the Tennessee River at Chattanooga, L8121

Copyright by John C. Taylor. Hand written on verso: "Miller, V, 253".

Pittsburg landing - Public domain scan / drawing

Pittsburg landing - Public domain scan / drawing

Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.677) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Position of ft. Henry on Tennessee River

Position of ft. Henry on Tennessee River

Steamboat on river heading toward fort. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-27. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.792 recto) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Scene at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee River, Sunday Afternoon, 6th April 1862

Scene at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee River, Sunday Afternoon, 6th Apr...

Union soldiers running toward Riverboat at landing; Battle of Shiloh. Double-page wood engraving. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1862 May 8. Reference copy may be in LOT 4416(o). This record c... More

Bluffs of the Tennessee River, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Bluffs of the Tennessee River, Chattanooga, Tenn.

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Watts Bar Dam, Tenn. 1935-40? A view of the dam and the Tennessee River

Watts Bar Dam, Tenn. 1935-40? A view of the dam and the Tennessee Rive...

No. K-2605. Tennessee Valley Authority. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at h... More

A black and white photo of a house on wheels, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a house on wheels, Tennessee. Farm Security...

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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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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...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

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...

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

[Knoxville, Tenn. Environs of Knoxville seen from south bank of Tennessee River; East Tennessee University in middle distance]

[Knoxville, Tenn. Environs of Knoxville seen from south bank of Tennes...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of the Siege of Knoxville, November-December 1863. The difficult strategic situation of the Federal armies after Chicamauga enabled Bragg to detach a fo... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Keller Memorial Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at U.S. Highway 31, Decatur, Morgan County, AL

Keller Memorial Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at U.S. Highway 31, D...

Significance: The Keller Bridge is the most elaborate of all Alabama's concrete bridges. It is one of only two bascule bridges in the state, and the only remaining one on the Tennessee River. It is named for ... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Turbine & Generator Unit, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Turbine & Generator Unit, Spanning T...

Significance: At Wilson Dam, two manufacturers, Westinghouse and General Electric, each supplied 4 of the dam's first turbine and generator sets to the 18 unit-capacity powerhouse. Illustrated here is one of t... More

Scott Fitzhugh Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at State Highway 76, Paris, Henry County, TN

Scott Fitzhugh Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at State Highway 76, P...

Significance: The bridge is significant as a representative example of the Pratt and Parker through truss types as well as for its historical associations with the State highway system and toll bridge program i... More

View from Point Lookout, Lookout Mountain

View from Point Lookout, Lookout Mountain

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View from Point Lookout, Lookout Mountain

View from Point Lookout, Lookout Mountain

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Bridgeport Swing Span Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Jackson County, AL

Bridgeport Swing Span Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Ja...

Significance: The Bridgeport Swing Span Railroad Bridge embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period and method of construction. Its method of construction (pin-connected) is rare for a swing bri... More

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. 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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Guntersville Dam on the Tennessee River, Guntersville, Alabama

Guntersville Dam on the Tennessee River, Guntersville, Alabama

Guntersville was founded by German immigrant John Gunter (the great-grandfather of American humorist Will Rogers). It is located at the southernmost point of the Tennessee River on Lake Guntersville, formed by ... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Keller Memorial Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at U.S. Highway 31, Decatur, Morgan County, AL

Keller Memorial Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at U.S. Highway 31, D...

Significance: The Keller Bridge is the most elaborate of all Alabama's concrete bridges. It is one of only two bascule bridges in the state, and the only remaining one on the Tennessee River. It is named for ... More

Tennessee River Railroad Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at Alabama Highway 43, Florence, Lauderdale County, AL

Tennessee River Railroad Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at Alabama H...

Significance: One of the oldest combination vehicular and railroad bridges in Alabama, the Tennessee River Railroad Bridge played a significant role in the early agricultural and industrial development of the T... More

Tennesee [sic] from Lookout - Public domain scan / drawing

Tennesee [sic] from Lookout - Public domain scan / drawing

Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-67. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.832). Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Navigation Lock, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Navigation Lock, Spanning Tennessee ...

Survey number: HAER AL-47-E National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000147

Bridgeport Swing Span Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Jackson County, AL

Bridgeport Swing Span Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Ja...

Significance: The Bridgeport Swing Span Railroad Bridge embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period and method of construction. Its method of construction (pin-connected) is rare for a swing bri... More

Moccasin Bend - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Moccasin Bend - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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Chattanooga and Tennessee River from Lookout Mt., Tenn.

Chattanooga and Tennessee River from Lookout Mt., Tenn.

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Power station. Tennessee Valley Authority development

Power station. Tennessee Valley Authority development

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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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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...

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

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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Tennessee River, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Spraying the banks of the Tennessee River to destroy mosquitoes which carry malaria

Tennessee River, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Spraying ...

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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 ...

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

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

View from Point Lookout, Lookout Mountain

View from Point Lookout, Lookout Mountain

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Scott Fitzhugh Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at State Highway 76, Paris, Henry County, TN

Scott Fitzhugh Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at State Highway 76, P...

Significance: The bridge is significant as a representative example of the Pratt and Parker through truss types as well as for its historical associations with the State highway system and toll bridge program i... More

Scott Fitzhugh Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at State Highway 76, Paris, Henry County, TN

Scott Fitzhugh Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at State Highway 76, P...

Significance: The bridge is significant as a representative example of the Pratt and Parker through truss types as well as for its historical associations with the State highway system and toll bridge program i... More

Scott Fitzhugh Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at State Highway 76, Paris, Henry County, TN

Scott Fitzhugh Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at State Highway 76, P...

Significance: The bridge is significant as a representative example of the Pratt and Parker through truss types as well as for its historical associations with the State highway system and toll bridge program i... More

View from Point Lookout, Lookout Mountain

View from Point Lookout, Lookout Mountain

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Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Navigation Lock, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Navigation Lock, Spanning Tennessee ...

Survey number: HAER AL-47-E National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000147

Bridgeport Swing Span Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Jackson County, AL

Bridgeport Swing Span Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Ja...

Significance: The Bridgeport Swing Span Railroad Bridge embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period and method of construction. Its method of construction (pin-connected) is rare for a swing bri... More

Bridgeport Swing Span Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Jackson County, AL

Bridgeport Swing Span Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Ja...

Significance: The Bridgeport Swing Span Railroad Bridge embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period and method of construction. Its method of construction (pin-connected) is rare for a swing bri... More

Scene at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee River, Sunday Afternoon, 6th April 1862

Scene at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee River, Sunday Afternoon, 6th Apr...

Union soldiers running toward Riverboat at landing; Battle of Shiloh. Double-page wood engraving. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1862 May 8. Reference copy may be in LOT 4416(o). This record c... More

[Knoxville, Tenn. from across the [Tennessee] River]

[Knoxville, Tenn. from across the [Tennessee] River]

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Point Hotel and the battlefield, Lookout Mountain

Point Hotel and the battlefield, Lookout Mountain

Attribution to Jackson based on transparency D4-14296. Transparency cracked from lower left corner and taped to second sheet of glass. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 014297. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

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 kw. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tenn. River system. The power that passes through this switchyard serves many useful domestic, agricultural and industrial uses.

Insulators and transmission wires in the switchyard of the TVA's Chick...

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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...

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

The city of Chattanooga, Tennessee on the Tennessee River

The city of Chattanooga, Tennessee on the Tennessee River

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

The Wilson Dam spans the Tennessee River between Lauderdale County and Colbert County, Alabama

The Wilson Dam spans the Tennessee River between Lauderdale County and...

Construction of the dam began in 1918 and was completed in 1924. It is one of nine Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dams on the Tennessee River. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photograp... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Chattanooga : the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain

Chattanooga : the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain

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Tennessee River Railroad Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at Alabama Highway 43, Florence, Lauderdale County, AL

Tennessee River Railroad Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at Alabama H...

Significance: One of the oldest combination vehicular and railroad bridges in Alabama, the Tennessee River Railroad Bridge played a significant role in the early agricultural and industrial development of the T... More

Scott Fitzhugh Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at State Highway 76, Paris, Henry County, TN

Scott Fitzhugh Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River at State Highway 76, P...

Significance: The bridge is significant as a representative example of the Pratt and Parker through truss types as well as for its historical associations with the State highway system and toll bridge program i... More

Bridgeport Swing Span Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Jackson County, AL

Bridgeport Swing Span Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Ja...

Significance: The Bridgeport Swing Span Railroad Bridge embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period and method of construction. Its method of construction (pin-connected) is rare for a swing bri... More

Bridgeport Swing Span Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Jackson County, AL

Bridgeport Swing Span Bridge, Spanning Tennessee River, Bridgeport, Ja...

Significance: The Bridgeport Swing Span Railroad Bridge embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period and method of construction. Its method of construction (pin-connected) is rare for a swing bri... More

Chattanooga and the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain

Chattanooga and the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain

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Point Hotel and the battlefield, Lookout Mountain

Point Hotel and the battlefield, Lookout Mountain

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Section of one of the switchyards from which high tension lines carry current generated at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, Sheffield vicinity, Ala. Located 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kw. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system

Section of one of the switchyards from which high tension lines carry ...

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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. Newly installed generator units at work in a recent addition to 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. Newly installed generator units at work in...

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Tennessee River, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). At dawn, plane spreads insecticide on Tennessee River to destroy malaria-carrying mosquitoes

Tennessee River, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). At dawn, ...

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View from Point Lookout, Lookout Mountain

View from Point Lookout, Lookout Mountain

Listed in Detroit, Catalogue J, pt. 2 supplement, (ca. 1905). Attributed to Jackson in Det. Pub. Co. negative log. "Detroit Photographic Co." Copyright deposit no. H20288. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 010250. Cop... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

[Tennessee River.  Blockhouse on the bank]

[Tennessee River. Blockhouse on the bank]

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Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Three Phase Tri Level Circuit Breaker, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Three Phase Tri Level Circuit Breake...

Significance: In order to perform such functions as servicing, maintenance, re-configuring and fault protection, it is necessary that there be some means for disconnecting the load (electric furnaces, motors, e... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Turbine & Generator Unit, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Turbine & Generator Unit, Spanning T...

Significance: At Wilson Dam, two manufacturers, Westinghouse and General Electric, each supplied 4 of the dam's first turbine and generator sets to the 18 unit-capacity powerhouse. Illustrated here is one of t... More

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