Library of Primary Sources

"Electric power is a weapon of war." WWII Poster	“Out of water power... comes air power. This is a TVA war job.”	Tennessee Valley Authority, World War II Posters, 1942-43 (gallery).
Whaling Log of Thomas Knowles, 1859.	Blank Coal Labor Contract, 1920s	Rural Electrification Posters, 1930s-1940s (gallery)
Child Labor, Pennsylvania Coal Mines (gallery)	Solar Energy Innovation, 1970s (gallery)	United States Climate Action Partnership, "A Call for Action" 2007
Political Cartoons and Standard Oil (gallery)	Yucca Mountain	Celilo Falls Fishing on the Columbia River, Oregon (gallery)
"Power to Win: 10 Years of TVA" WWII Poster	“A Plan of Sundry Farms &c at Patucket in the Town of Chelmsford” (1821)	Plans of Lowell, MA, 1821 & 1832
“Plan of the Town of Lowell and Belvidere Village” (1832)	Origins of Female Millhands, Hamilton Manufacturing Company, Lowell, MA 1836.	Edmund L. Barber, "East View of Lowell, Mass." 1839.
Charles Cist Compares Cincinnati and Pittsburgh in 1841.	Female Millhands, Lowell Mills, Essay and Poem, 1840s	Lowell Mills Time Table, 1853

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