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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
Norris Dam construction, Tennessee. Silver print, the image measuring 241x190 mm; 9½x7½ inches, with Abbott's signature and title in pencil, two reproduction stamps (including a Roto Copy stamp) with notations in pencil, and other various reproduction notations in pencil, on verso. 1935.
Norris Dam was the first major project for the Tennessee Valley Authority, which had been created in 1933 to bring economic development to the region and control the rampant flooding that had long plagued the Tennessee Valley. The infrastructure project was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. The Tennessee Valley Authority was formed in 1933 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal legislation.
