Categories Select Category Fuel Type Animal Power Biofuels Coal Electricity Gas Nuclear Oil Solar Water Power Wind Library Objects Sector Consumption Extraction Refining Transportation Source Book Film Government Document Graph Journal Letter Newspaper Photograph Theme Culture Economics Environment Labor Law National Security Politics Time Period 1800-1850 1850-1900 1900-1950 1950-1970 1970-Present Tennessee Valley Authority, World War II Posters, 1942-43 (gallery) Vacuum Cleaner Advertisements, Good Housekeeping, 1920s Rural Electrification Posters, 1930s-1940s (gallery) Trends in US Coal Production “A Plan of Sundry Farms Est. at Patucket in the Town of Chelmsford” (1821) “Out of water power… comes air power. This is a TVA war job.” “Electric power is a weapon of war.” WWII Poster Anti-Dam Violence on the Merrimack River and its Tributaries, Fall 1859 “Attempt to Blow Up,” Laconia Democrat, November 1859 “Perilous Situation of Whalemen,” 1861. Winslow Homer, “Morning Bell,” The Horse Disease, Chicago Daily Tribune, 1872. Lehigh Canal, 1873 Allan Pinkerton, “The Mollie Maguires and the Detectives,” 1877. “An Act Relative to the Pollution of Rivers,” Massachusetts State Law, 1878. Thomas Edison’s Patent Drawing for the Incandescent Electric Lamp, 1882 “The Electric Light in Houses – Laying the Electrical Tubes,” Harper’s Weekly, 1882. Orville H. Platt, “Invention and Advancement,” 1891. Rev. John McDowell, “Life of a Coal Miner,” 1902 Eugene Debs remembers the Molly Maguires, 1907. 1 2 3 … 8 Next Page→