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Farmer in Tennessee receives phosphate fertilizer from TVA and applies it to his fields

On development and advances from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Men aboard train hands a sack of Phosphate fertilizer to farmer, manufactured at the TVA's Muscle Shoals plant. Train with sign "Knox County Soil Conservation Association" on the side of the train car. Farmer draws horse drawn carriage beside train and is given a bag of the phosphate fertilizer. Farmer applying the fertilizer to his fields with a horse drawn cart. Farmer in hose drawn cart passes a farmhouse. Cows graze in the field. View of houses and electric poles. Farmer shows an electric transmission box attached to a barn.

Date: 1935
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023094
Roads, bars, and restaurants in the Tennessee Valley

The efforts of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) to improve the lives of rural communities in the Tennessee Valley. Newly laid road in a rural area, with a 1930s era car driving on it. City "problems" being brought to rural areas due to electrification and new infrastructure: Car parked in front of a log cabin with a sign beside the stone chimney that advertises offerings including fast food, reading "Dix's Cabin. Beer on tap. Wines. Liquors. Hot Dogs & Hamburgers." A different store with sign "Brown's Parkside Bar & Grill. Wines. Liquors." Another sign there reads "Parkside Grill Comfort Station."

Date: 1935
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023096
Tennessee Village Authority (TVA) provides education to Village people through exhibition of model markets and houses.

Advances in education due to developments from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Visitors at the Blount County Fair see a school exhibit with a sign "15 Years of Progress in Rural Education." It displays a small one room school house in 1920, and then the new expanded school in 1935. It shows a "how we did it" area depicting cooperative efforts of the school board and citizens. A school boy standing near the display at the fair. A stack of canned produce in jars.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023097
Tennessee Valley Authority efforts to unify churches in common efforts to help rural citizens

Drawings depicting efforts of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to unify rural churches of all denominations in common efforts to improve the lives of citizens. Exterior views of rural church buildings. A man riding inside an open elevator, entering a construction site. Men building new buildings at a construction site. A building with sign "Community Building." Men seated in front of the community building with a banner behind them advertising an upcoming 'Dog Show'.

Date: 1935
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023098
Quaker college students participate in a Penn-Craft work camp, building homes at a Pennsylvania mining community

College student volunteers of the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) work together at a Penn-Craft work camp, building homes and facilities for a coal-mining community in Pennsylvania (possibly Norvelt?). Opening image shows the book "The Plight of the Bituminous Coal Miner" by Homer Lawrence Morris and Joseph H. Willits. View of farmland and a new mining community from a high hill. Craft work Camp in Pennsylvania. View of a community mining area. Coal elevator building and rows of miner's homes close together in the background. Students help miners build new homes. They work on scaffolding, building walls of homes with stone and mortar. View of lumber piled high and a worker sawing a board. Workers move building materials in wheelbarrows. A stone home with a partially framed roof. An African American student volunteer breaks up rock with a sledge hammer. Volunteers load stone from a nearby quarry onto waiting trucks. Workers slide rocks from a quarry to a waiting team below, who loads rock pieces into a mill that pulverizes the rock and turns it into stone dust that is then carried away for use in the building projects. View of Miners simple, temporary houses. A mining family relaxes on a bench swing in front of a house and children of miners play with a dog. Men framing a temporary home. A woman volunteer paints the exterior of a house.

Date: 1938
Duration: 5 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023124
Nursery school for children of coal miners in Pennsylvania

College student volunteers of the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) work together at a Penn-Craft work camp, helping mining families to build homes and educate children. Near a coal-mining community in Pennsylvania (possibly Norvelt?). Quaker college student volunteer aiding women in the mining community as they operate a nursery school for children of miners. Children playing in an open field, and in a sandbox, as teachers walk around and sit with them. Children stand at a table and model clay. Teachers serve a snack to the students, seated in a circle outside a school building. A woman mops the front porch of the building, while another woman irons clothes. Young woman volunteer gives a haircut to a little boy.

Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023125