TVA Official Publications Collection , 1931-1958

Access and use

Location of collection:
Radford University
University Archives
McConnell Library
Radford University
P.O. Box 6881
801 East Main Street
Radford, VA 24142
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Bud Bennett
Phone: (540) 831-5694
Phone: (540) 831-5701

Summary

Extent:
1.0 Linear feet 1 flat box containing publications.
Creator:
Abstract:
The TVA Official Publications Collection contains an assortment of documents relating to the Tennessee Valley Authority, including annual reports, maps, electricity sales data, promotional and information flyers and materials, and other materials. See the full inventory for more details.
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

The TVA Official Publications Collection contains documents relating to the Tennessee Valley Authority. An Atlas of the Tennessee Valley Region from 1936 is available in this collection. As well as, reports on costs of water control systems in the Tennessee River Basin, a report to the nation from the TVA on its first 25 years and the 1948 Annual Report of the TVA. Maps are also present in the collection such as maps of dams and resevoirs of the TVA and federal financing and location of Public Power Projects maps, along with other maps. There is a stastics report of electricity sales from the 1940's-1960's as well as assorted TVA information and publicity pamphlets and booklets.

Biographical / historical:

The Tennessee Valley Authority was created in 1933 by the Tennessee Valley Authority Act (TVA Act) as a part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. The goal of the TVA was to address issues in the Valley such as energy, environmental stewardship and economic development. In the 1940's during World War II, TVA created one of the largest hydropower programs undertaken in the US. In the 1960's the TVA began building nuclear plants and through the 1990's TVA kept wholesale electric power affordable and reliable. The TVA is perhaps best known for it's construction of dams throughout its history. The Authority is still in operation today.

Acquisition information:
Seattle Municipal Archives, May 2010.
Arrangement:

Folder 1: Atlas of the Tennessee Valley Region: Part 1 - the Natural Series June 1936

Folder 2: Atlas of the Tennessee Valley Region: Part 1 - the Industrial Series June 1936

Folder 3: Muscle Shoals: A Plan for use of the Tennessee River by the Muscle Shoals Commission. 109 page book. 1931

Folder 4: Report on costs of water control system in the Tennessee River Basin. 1949

Folder 5: Map of dams and resevoirs, TVA.

Folder 6: 1946 Annual Report of 138 municipal and cooperative distributors of TVA power

Folder 7: Public Owenership of Public Utilities, Vole XVI, No 9, Sept 1934. Muscle Shoals

Folder 8: 2 Maps: 1) Federal Financing and Location of Public Power Projects, 1933-1939; 2) Transmission and Distrubution system of TVA and Systems

Folder 9: A Report to the nation from the TVA on its first 25 years (1933-1958)

Folder 10: Electricity sales statistics reports, 1940s-1960s.

Folder 11: Assorted TVA information and publicity pamphlets and booklets

Folder 12: Assorted TVA information and publicity pamphlets and booklets

Folder 13: Annual Report of the TVA 1948

Physical location:
Located in locked compact shelving, level 1, shelf 15C.
Physical description:
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