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Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Installing new generators

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Installing new...

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Douglas Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Workers leaving the job

Douglas Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Workers leav...

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Tennessee Valley Authority production. Chemical plants. Studies in the high-pressure synthesis of gases are being made continuously in the TVA laboratories in the Muscle Shoals area. The plants served by these laboratories make ammonia for conversion into ammonium nitrate for use in the manufacture of high explosive shells, elemental phosphorus for incendiary bombs and shells, phosphoric acid and highly concentrated phosphatic fertilizers

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Chemical plants. Studies in the...

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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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Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority. Control room

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority. Control room

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Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Workers at safety meeting

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Workers at saf...

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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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Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Julien H. Case using a portable electric motor for his farm chores

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

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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)). Generators

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

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Fort Loudon [i.e., Loudoun] Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Signal man on a derrick

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

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Scroll case walls for two generators at a new addition to the TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles about 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. Scroll case walls for two generators at a ...

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Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. The upstream face of the spillway at the new Fort Loudoun Dam. This dam is located further upstream than any of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this damn 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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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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Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam construction. The downstream face of the spillway of the new Fort Loudoun Dam. This dam is located further upstream than any of the TVA's main Tennessee River projects. Scheduled for closure and first storage of water early in 1943, this damn 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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Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Kenneth Hall eating lunch

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

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Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)). Civilian Conservation Corps boys weeding loblolly pine seedlings at TVA nursery. Since 1934, eighty million trees have been planted for soil conservation and flood control in the Tennessee Valley

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)). Civilian Conser...

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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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Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. Installing tubes in condensers 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. Install...

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Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Spreading insecticide for malaria control

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Spreading inse...

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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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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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Flathead valley special area project, Montana. Stump farm

Flathead valley special area project, Montana. Stump farm

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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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Florence, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Gordon Williams, electrician at Wilson Dam, lives in this demountable prefabricated defense house at Florence, Alabama

Florence, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Gordon Williams,...

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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. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. An ironworker employed on the erection of stacks and breechings 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. An iron...

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

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

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Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A Negro worker tending an electric phosphate smelting furnace which is producing elemental phosphorus at a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bombs and shells and of material for "smoke," is produced by smelting phosphate rock, coke and silica together in the electric furnaces and condensing the resulting phosphorus gases. When surplus phosphorus is available it is converted into highly concentrated phosphate fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A Negro w...

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Norris Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Lake created by Norris Dam provides swimming facilities for people of Knoxville

Norris Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Lake created ...

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Harcourt A. Morgan, TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) director

Harcourt A. Morgan, TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) director

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Mission San Jose, California. Tomb of Robert Livermore, pioneer settler of the Livermore Valley

Mission San Jose, California. Tomb of Robert Livermore, pioneer settle...

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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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Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Gantry crane

Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Gantry crane

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Los Angeles, California. Evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Japanese bring their baggage to the train which will take them to Owens Valley

Los Angeles, California. Evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West co...

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Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Japanese-Americans going to camp at Owens Valley gather around baggage car at the old Santa Fe Station

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from...

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Advertisement of the Imperial Valley, California, board of trade

Advertisement of the Imperial Valley, California, board of trade

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Production. Steam power plant equipment. Cylinder and piston of a 6,000-ton hydraulic press used to form parts for high-pressure boilers. 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. Cylinder and piston of a 6,00...

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Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for war work at Stair Vocational High School

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

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. The engineer, or "hog head" of a freight locomotive hauling materials for the building of TVA's Watts Bar Dam, oils the guides of the main driving rods of his engine. Long mechanical experience, practical railroad training and common sense are required for the job of running one of the big "hogs"

Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. The engin...

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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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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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Florence, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Gordon Williams, electrician at Wilson Dam, lives in this demountable prefabricated defense house at Florence, Alabama

Florence, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Gordon Williams,...

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Florence, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Julien Case in the county agent's office

Florence, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Julien Case in t...

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Cherokee Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Working on the cover of a 30,000 kilowatt generator under a 250 ton gantry crane

Cherokee Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Working on...

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Taos Valley, New Mexico - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Taos Valley, New Mexico - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

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Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico. A Spanish-American village in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Ditches and hand-hewn flumes carry the mountain water out over the valley for irrigation

Trampas, Taos County, New Mexico. A Spanish-American village in the fo...

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Bulova Demco, Valley Stream, Long Island. Powder room

Bulova Demco, Valley Stream, Long Island. Powder room

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Chouer Valley from D'hour-es-Chouer. Chouer Valley, descent from Dhour-es-Chouer to Chouer Mt. House

Chouer Valley from D'hour-es-Chouer. Chouer Valley, descent from Dhour...

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Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin, residence on Chicken Valley Rd., Glen Head, Long Island, New York. Gallery, to game room

Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin, residence on Chicken Valley Rd., Glen Head, Lon...

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Long Island Light and Power Co. Locust Valley substation

Long Island Light and Power Co. Locust Valley substation

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Paradise Valley School. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Paradise Valley School. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Built in 1936 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural docume... More

New Paradise Valley School. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

New Paradise Valley School. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collectio...

Current school Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural docum... More

Main Street, Paradise Valley, Nev.. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Main Street, Paradise Valley, Nev.. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife C...

Public domain photograph of a village, town, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the Americ... More

Smitty's Jukebox Museum in tiny Pharr in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas

Smitty's Jukebox Museum in tiny Pharr in the Rio Grande Valley of Texa...

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Spanish American Villages of the Pecos River Valley, General View, Upper Pecos River Valley, Villanueva, San Miguel County, NM

Spanish American Villages of the Pecos River Valley, General View, Upp...

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Laura Forman, of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, talking with miners

Laura Forman, of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, talking with...

Event: Protest of Mountaintop Removal. Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Monument Valley, Arizona - Drawing. Public domain image.

Monument Valley, Arizona - Drawing. Public domain image.

This national park is located on the southern border of Utah with northern Arizona, in the same vicinity as the Four Corners area. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. H... More

The Garnett Creek Bridge on Highway 29 near Calistoga, California, is one of what was once more than 300 stone-arch bridges in the Napa Valley

The Garnett Creek Bridge on Highway 29 near Calistoga, California, is ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Constructed in 1914. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, P... More

Windmill at the Solvang Brewing Company in Solvang, once a Danish colony in the Santa Ynez Valley of Santa Barbara County, California

Windmill at the Solvang Brewing Company in Solvang, once a Danish colo...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Solvang was founded in 1911 on almost 9,000 acres of the Rancho San Carlos de Jonata Mexican land grant by a group of Danes who traveled west to establish... More

MacMurray Ranch located in the Russian River Valley in northern California

MacMurray Ranch located in the Russian River Valley in northern Califo...

Purchased in 1941 by actor Fred MacMurray who spent time there when not making films, engaging in, among other things, the raising of prize-winning Aberdeen Angus cattle. Title, date and keywords based on infor... More

[Kittie Lee Inn mural by Robert Thomas, John Knowlton, and Rich Perkins, 2000. Located in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains]

[Kittie Lee Inn mural by Robert Thomas, John Knowlton, and Rich Perkin...

Mural information from Bishop Mural Society website, 2013. The town was named for Bishop Creek, which flows out of the Sierras. The creek, in turn, was named after Samuel Addison Bishop, an early Owens Valley s... More

The Sierra Retreat Motel located in Coleville in northern Mono County in California's Antelope Valley

The Sierra Retreat Motel located in Coleville in northern Mono County ...

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Signs in Coleville located in northern Mono County in California's Antelope Valley

Signs in Coleville located in northern Mono County in California's Ant...

Coleville is named after California's first congressman, Cornelius Cole. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M.... More

Wild mustard plants bring color to the otherwise dormant vines of California's Napa Valley in wintertime

Wild mustard plants bring color to the otherwise dormant vines of Cali...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

The Village at Squaw Valley, a year-round Sierra Mountain resort in Olympic Valley, west of Tahoe City, California

The Village at Squaw Valley, a year-round Sierra Mountain resort in Ol...

Best known for skiing and snowboarding, Squaw Valley was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Tree stump bear sculpture in the town of Volcano, California, named for its setting in a bowl-shaped valley that early miners thought was caused by a volcano. The early morning fog rising from the valley floor only reinforced that belief

Tree stump bear sculpture in the town of Volcano, California, named fo...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

One of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

One of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More

Inside one of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

Inside one of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Vill...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More

Scene, including a barracks building, from California's Fort Tejon State Park in Grapevine Canyon on the main route between California's central valley and Southern California

Scene, including a barracks building, from California's Fort Tejon Sta...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The fort, first garrisoned in 1854, was established to protect and control Indians who were living on the Sebastian Indian Reservation, and to protect bot... More

The Philippi Covered Bridge across the Tygart Valley River in Philippi, West Virginia

The Philippi Covered Bridge across the Tygart Valley River in Philippi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1852 by Lemuel Chenoweth, one of America's master covered bridge builders. Made of yellow poplar and incorporating the famous... More

Footprints at Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, one of America's newest national parks to be established (in 2004), in the San Luis Valley at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Range. The dunes, the tallest in North America, were formed from sand and soil deposits of the Rio Grande River and its tributaries, flowing through the valley

Footprints at Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, one of Americ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Valley of babbling waters, southern Utah / TM ; Prang's American Chromo.

Valley of babbling waters, southern Utah / TM ; Prang's American Chrom...

Copyright by L. Prang & Co. Public domain photograph - historical image of Utah, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[U.S. soldiers resting among ruins of building, with soldier lying on plank in foreground, on the Siegfried Line, Rhone Valley, German Front]

[U.S. soldiers resting among ruins of building, with soldier lying on ...

Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Military section. Unproc... More

Annin-Smalley House, Valley Road, Liberty Corner, Somerset County, NJ

Annin-Smalley House, Valley Road, Liberty Corner, Somerset County, NJ

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Annin-Smalley House, Valley Road, Liberty Corner, Somerset County, NJ

Annin-Smalley House, Valley Road, Liberty Corner, Somerset County, NJ

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Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, California

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers. Imperial Valley, Califor...

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Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Electric Locomotive No. 297, Yakima, Yakima County, WA

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Electric Loc...

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Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Electric Locomotive No. 297, Yakima, Yakima County, WA

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Electric Loc...

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Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Naches River Bridge, Yakima, Yakima County, WA

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Naches River...

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Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Perryton, Texas at opening of wheat harvest. With his wife and growing family, he has been on the road since marriage, thirteen years ago. Migrations include ranch land in Texas, cotton and wheat in Texas, cotton and timber in New Mexico, peas and potatoes in Idaho, wheat in Colorado, hops and apples in Yakima Valley, Washington, cotton in Arizona. He wants to buy a little place in Idaho

Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Pe...

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Wyoming Valley Flood Control System, Woodward Pumping Station, East of Toby Creek crossing by Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, Edwardsville, Luzerne County, PA

Wyoming Valley Flood Control System, Woodward Pumping Station, East of...

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Stoking the furnace in the power-house. Pauls Valley Training School. The boy was very proud of his job. See 4833-4842. Location: Pauls Valley, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Stoking the furnace in the power-house. Pauls Valley Training School. ...

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Sound Democrat Mill, Placer Creek Valley, Silverton, San Juan County, CO

Sound Democrat Mill, Placer Creek Valley, Silverton, San Juan County, ...

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Sound Democrat Mill, Placer Creek Valley, Silverton, San Juan County, CO

Sound Democrat Mill, Placer Creek Valley, Silverton, San Juan County, ...

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Shaws Camp, Eastside High Line Canal, Imperial Valley, California

Shaws Camp, Eastside High Line Canal, Imperial Valley, California

J170559 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; S. U. Bunnell; March 25, 1913; DLC/PP-1913:44584. Copyright claimant's address: Pasadena, Cal. No. 625.

First Methodist Episcopal Church, Valley & Jewett Streets (moved from NH, Derryville), Manchester, Hillsborough County, NH

First Methodist Episcopal Church, Valley & Jewett Streets (moved from ...

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Wilbur-Womble Mill, Southern Edge Of Salt Spring Valley, Copperopolis, Calaveras County, CA

Wilbur-Womble Mill, Southern Edge Of Salt Spring Valley, Copperopolis,...

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Shotwell-Runyon House, Happy Valley Lane, Metuchen, Middlesex County, NJ

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Farm work. Pauls Valley Training School. Lewis W. Hine. See 4833-4842. Location: Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.

Farm work. Pauls Valley Training School. Lewis W. Hine. See 4833-4842....

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Rosser attacking the rear--Oct. 8th 1864 nr. Harrisonburg. Shenandoah Valley

Rosser attacking the rear--Oct. 8th 1864 nr. Harrisonburg. Shenandoah ...

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Schooner WAWONA, 1018 Valley Street, Seattle, King County, WA

Schooner WAWONA, 1018 Valley Street, Seattle, King County, WA

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Schooner WAWONA, 1018 Valley Street, Seattle, King County, WA

Schooner WAWONA, 1018 Valley Street, Seattle, King County, WA

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Schooner WAWONA, 1018 Valley Street, Seattle, King County, WA

Schooner WAWONA, 1018 Valley Street, Seattle, King County, WA

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Schooner WAWONA, 1018 Valley Street, Seattle, King County, WA

Schooner WAWONA, 1018 Valley Street, Seattle, King County, WA

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Henry Cluff Ranch, Cabin, Jordanelle Valley, Keetley Mine Road at U.S. Route 40, Heber City, Wasatch County, UT

Henry Cluff Ranch, Cabin, Jordanelle Valley, Keetley Mine Road at U.S....

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