Thomas, thanks. Those are excellent, and that Alfred T. Palmer was a hell of a great photographer.

I googled up a little biographical info on him:

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...had a feeling you might, being such a shutterbug yourself! I agree, I think several of them are very, very good photos; pretty interesting connection you found there to another great photographer...

The Douglas Dam picture is a great shot, especially with the lighting on the face. I didn't see any other TVA pictures.

Several years ago I found some TVA photos at the LOC site. Finding them is a bit more complicated than on Flickr but here is a link to a few of them.

I just clicked on "New Search" and entered "Norris Dam" to locate more color photos. There may be more for other dams in the system.

I remember finding a 1942 version of this old mill near Norris that I shot in 1999.

Since their photo is black and white it's in a different collection. Try going to the main page here, then clicking "Digital Collections", then "Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)". That will get you to a search field.

Disclaimer: This post was facilitated by an extra large serving of last summer's Highland Manor American Cab Berry (named in honor of the winery's mascot, a Black Labrador called Stonebridge Cabernet)

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If you like this kind of thing you might also try shorpy.com which bills itself as the hundred year old photo blog.

I was up late last night looking at these pieces and the Flickr site. These are neat. I will have to check out the other site. The museum in CA was beautiful. Then when I got down to looking at all of the Flickr link, I found some Russel Lee photographs. I had taken classes with him at the U. of Texas at Austin. He was a WPA photographer and in WWII. He also did some in this area for the gov. Thanks for letting people know about the site and the other places to ckeck out. Sherrie