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Norris Dam in Tennessee

Norris Dam, the Tennessee Valley Authority's water control project on the Clinch River in northeast Tennessee. It was completed in 1936 and is 265 feet high and 1,860 feet long. It helps control seasonal floods, aids navigation on the Tennessee and lower Mississippi Rivers in months of low flow and provides for the incidental production of electric power.

Bess Wallace and Harry S. Truman on a Fishing Trip

Photo taken of Bess Wallace Truman and Harry S. Truman during their courting days. They are seated among friends in a rowboat on the Little Blue River. L to R: Mrs. Emma P. Southern, mother of May Wallace, Bess Wallace (holding a fishing pole), Harry S. Truman, an unidentified man, and a young woman, probably Natalie Wallace. Others in the boat are unidentified. A letter to Bess from Harry, dated August 5, 1913, mentions preparing to go with her on a fishing trip on the Little Blue River. Copied from a photo album lent to the Truman Library by May Wallace.