Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.

Scope and Contents Note Original caption reads: Air view of TVA's experimental fertilizer plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, is shown here with Wilson Dam in background. These properties were constructed during and following World War I and were assigned to TVA in 1933. The chemical plant has been modernized by TVA, for the development of new fertilizers that will prove more economical to the farmer as applied to the soil. Highly concentrated phosphatic fertilizers have been developed. The plant also...

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Original caption reads: TVA's Wilson Dam was taken over from the War Department in 1933. It was started during the first World War, but not finished until 1925. It helps eliminate the former shoals; the Tennessee River drops 100 feet from the site of Wheeler Dam, 16 miles upstream from Wilson Dam. Wilson Dam's powerhouse has an installed capacity of 436,000 kw, greatest of any TVA dam.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.

Scope and Contents Note Original caption reads: Regulation of floods. Thirty major dams comprise the TVA system, regulating the river and its tributaries for flood control, navigation development, and power production. Of these, nine are on the main Tennessee River; the others on tributaries. Together the dams have a combined storage capacity of more than 22,000,000 acre-feet of water, of which 14,600,000 acre-feet are useful for both flood regulation and power production, and 12,000,000 acre-feet...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.

Scope and Contents Note Original caption reads: The force of falling water becomes electric power at Norris Dam -- A portion of the switchyard and powerhouse at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Norris Dam may be seen in the foreground, while beyond, the waters of the Clinch River cascade 207 feet down the face of the spillway section - a drop almost 40 feet greater than Niagara Falls. TVA engineers raised the 14-foot steel drum gates atop this spillway in January 1937 to prevent water from reaching...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.

Scope and Contents Note

Original caption reads: No information on this image; also, negative is missing.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection houses photographs that Robert Coe took of various TVA projects in the 1940s in addition to several graphs and maps.