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Crane operator at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (TVA) (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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A carpenter at the TVA's new Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Tenn. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet ong, with a 31,600-acre reservoir area extending 43 miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre-feet
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Men working on telephone lines, probably near a TVA dam hydroelectric plant] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Gas welding a joint in a line of spiral pipe at the TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River, Tenn. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600-acre reservoir area extending 43 miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of
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- 18 comments
- 137 favorites
- 55,444 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama (LOC)
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- 67 favorites
- 52,381 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama (LOC)
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- 97 favorites
- 45,046 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the top of the guide bearing in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tenn. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be
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- 30 favorites
- 40,060 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Welder at work on Douglas Dam, Tenn. (TVA) (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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"Big Pete" Ramagos, rigger at work on dam (TVA) Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Switch yard at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, vicinity of Sheffield, Ala., 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be increased to a
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- 32,879 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Construction at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Construction work at the TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Generator works at the winding of a generator stator in a new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam, Sheffield vicinity, Ala. Located 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 k
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- 16 favorites
- 31,303 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Eight generator units in the generator room of a new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam, 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
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- 19 favorites
- 30,315 views
- Date taken: 1939
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TVA chemical plant, electric furnace loaded with phosphate, vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama (LOC)
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- 18 favorites
- 30,079 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Construction of Douglas Dam, TVA (LOC)
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- 30,070 views
- Date taken: 1939
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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 377,00
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- 7 favorites
- 28,916 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Countryside near the TVA site of the Douglas dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Transformer at TVA's Chickamauga Dam near Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Generator hall of the powerhouse, Chickamauga Dam, Tenn. The dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, has an authorized power installation of 81,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 108,000 kw.
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- 26 favorites
- 28,338 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Excavating within the log cofferdam during an early stage of construction, Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Early stages of construction work at the TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 8 favorites
- 27,368 views
- Date taken: 1939
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The countryside near the TVA site of the Douglas Dam, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 26,184 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Construction at Douglas Dam (TVA), Tenn. (LOC)
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- 24,231 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Transmission towers in the switchyard of TVA's Chickamauga Dam, near Chattanooga, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 24,048 views
- Date taken: 1939
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The countryside near the Tennessee Valley Authority dam site, Douglas Dam vicinity, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 7 favorites
- 23,492 views
- Date taken: 1939
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The countryside near the Tennessee Valley Authority dam site, Douglas Dam vicinity, Tenn. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 5 favorites
- 22,668 views
- Date taken: 1939
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Early stage of construction work at the TVA's Douglas Dam, Tenn. In the background is a log coffer dam (LOC)
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- 22,609 views
- Date taken: 1939
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