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Summary: The East Tennessee Light and Power Company records contain correspondence, tax statements, quarterly and annual reports, budgets, account statements, ledgers, job orders, inventories and blueprints. Although the records date from 1989 to 1945, the bulk of the material was generated between 1920 and 1945. The records consist substantially of the documents required for reports to, and audit by, external agencies to which the company was accountable. The remainder of the records largely concern the generation and transmission of electricity by the company and the purchase of East Tennessee Light and Power Company by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Although personnel files were not included in this records group, one TVA payroll ledger, dated 1950, is part of the collection. Photographs which were part of reports or in photo albums were left with the records; other photographs have been placed in Series B-V and stored in the photographic storage area.
Provenance: Ronald E. Brewer, representing the Tennessee Valley Authority, donated the East Tennessee Light and Power Company Records to the Archives of Appalachia on June 15, 1983. Additions to the collection were transferred to the archives in August 1987 and October 1988. The Tennessee Valley Authority had gained custody of the records when it purchased East Tennessee Light and Power Company in 1945.
Access Restrictions: Use of materials restricted to library.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
PROVENANCE
HISTORICAL NOTE
SCOPE AND CONTENT
BOX AND FOLDER LIST
Subgroup A, Financial Records
Series A-I, Government Tax and Agency Files
Series A-II, Subject Files, 1898-1945
Series A-III, Marketing Files
Series A-IV, Supporting Files
Series A-V, Overhead Cost Studies
Series A-VI, Miscellaneous Bound Volumes
Subgroup B, Operating Records
Series B-I, Bound Volumes
Subseries B-I-A, Miscellaneous Volumes
Subseries B-I-B, Inventories and Job Order Analysis
Series B-II, Job Order Files, 1921-1945
Series B-III, Subject Files, 1910-1945
Series B-IV, Photographic Prints and Negatives, 1926, 1928, 1935, 1940 and undated
BOX AND FOLDER LIST
Subgroup A, Financial Records
Series A-I, Government Tax and Agency Files
Series A-II, Subject Files
Series A-IV, Supporting Files
Series A-V, Overhead Cost Studies
Series A-VI, Miscellaneous Bound Volumes
Subgroup B, Operating Records
Series B-I, Bound Volumes
Sub-series B-I-B, Invetories and Job Order Analysis
Series B-III, Operating Subject Files
BOX AND FOLDER LIST
Subgroup C, Tennessee Valley Authority Records of Purchase of East Tennessee Light and Power Company, 1945
Series C-I, Cost Analysis Documents, 1945
Series C-II, Deeds and Purchase Agreements, 1945
Contact Information: For more information about the East Tennessee Light and Power Records specifically or the Archives of Appalachia in general, you can contact us at the following: Archives of Appalachia, Box 70295, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614. Telephone: (423) 439-4338. E-mail: archives@etsu.edu.
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