Snapshots of Tennessee

18 Jan 2008

'Big Pete' Ramagos, rigger at work on dam (TVA) Douglas Dam, Tenn., in June 1942
I've been reading about flickr and the Library of Congress' Commons Project and decided to take a look and see if there were any photos from Tennessee. There are. The photo above was taken in June 1942 at Douglas Dam of "Big Pete" Ramagos, a rigger.

There are several of Douglas Dam's construction, copper mining near Ducktown, Watts Bar Dam, various other TVA facilities. a corn field by a river in northeast Tennessee, and work on the "Vengeance" dive bomber at a Nashville plant. I wish there were more.

Rex Hammock writes about some of the details of the project and has some links to more info. This is a wonderful way of unlocking the rich-with-history collection of public domain photos at the Library of Congress. The flickr folks blog about it.

Posted by Jack D. Lail on Friday, January 18, 2008 at 8:46 PM

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There are some great video posted on the Library of Congress National Archives / Google page!

I used some of the footage in both videos below on the Great Smoky Mountains and the Wonderland Hotel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x4bmksLuBs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67iB1OoJ2E

1936 footage
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-276263724055074977

Dan | January 21, 2008 4:16 PM | Reply

That's a great piece on the CCC work in the park.

Jack D. Lail replied to comment from Dan | January 21, 2008 4:51 PM | Reply

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