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June 1942, Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Mrs. Wiegel, farm wife, in her electric kitchen. Arthur Rothstein photographer

U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan said that "TVA is liable for the ultimate failure of North Dike which flowed, in part, from TVA's negligent nondiscretionary conduct."

A TVA Album: The Early Years, 1933-46 by the National Archives Southeast Region. On May 18, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, a major piece of his New Deal program. Designed to raise the standard of living in an impoverished area, the agency’s work touched the lives of most people living in the region. The images in this postcard set portray the shared struggles and triumphs of "regular folk" whose lives were changed forever....

An operator adjusts a gate valve at the Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic amonia plant in the Muscle Shoals, Alabama area 1942

Original Caption: Millville, New Jersey - Textiles. Millville Manufacturing Co. [Woman pulling thread.], 1936 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 69-RP-448 Photographer: Hine, Lewis Subjects: The New Deal Tennessee Valley Authority Works Progress Administration Work Portraits The Great Depression Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/518677 Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601…

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TVA Photography: Thirty Years of Life in the Tennessee Valley by Patricia Bernard Ezzell. $25.00. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi (September 5, 2003). Author: Patricia Bernard Ezzell

Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer. The countryside near the Tennessee Valley Authority dam site, Douglas Dam vicinity, Tenn. 1942 June 1 transparency : color. Notes: Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. Subjects: Tennessee Valley Authority World War, 1939-1945 Dams United States--Tennessee Format: Transparencies--Color Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division…

President Franklin Roosevelt signed the ambitious but controversial Tennessee Valley Authority Act 80 years ago on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation,...