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C
HAPTER
10: N
EW
C
ENTURY
, L
AST
F
LAME

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"In our households": Edwin J. Houston,
Electricity in Every-Day Life,
vol. 1 (New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1905), p. 1.
Gas, for instance: Information on the cost of lighting comes from M. Luckiesh,
Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization
(New York: Century, 1920), pp. 214–17.

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"Houses were lit": Richard K. Nelson,
Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), p. 18.

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"the constellation of": Walter Hough, "The Lamp of the Eskimo," in
The Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and the Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1896: Report of the U.S. National Museum
(Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1898), p. 1038.

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"Had he smoked":
Ward's Auto World,
October 1970, p. 63, quoted in "Lamp Fillers: Notes and Queries, Quotes and News: Lamp Pollution?"
History of Lamps and Lighting: The Rushlight Archives, 1934–2006,
DVD, Rushlight Club, 2007.

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"Lamp trimming only reaches": Hough, "The Lamp of the Eskimo," p. 1034.
"The Eskimo have": Walter Hough, "The Origin and Range of the Eskimo Lamp,"
American Anthropologist
11, no. 4 (April 1898): 117.
"unlike our lighting systems": Walter Benjamin, "The Lamp," in
Selected Writings,
vol. 2,
1927–1934,
ed. Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith, trans. Rodney Livingstone and others (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 692.

C
HAPTER
11: G
LEAMING
T
HINGS

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"In days of old": Edward Hungerford, "Night Glow of the City,"
Harper's Weekly,
April 30, 1910, p. 13.

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"when it was found": "Fines the Edison Co. for Smoke Nuisance,"
New York Times,
January 17, 1911, p. 7.

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"Electrical articles": Quoted in Ronald C. Tobey,
Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), p. 30.
"It was a Dover iron": Quoted in Earl Lifshey,
The Housewares Story: A History of the American Housewares Industry
(Chicago: National Housewares Manufacturers Association, 1973), p. 231.
"so-called instruction": Christine Frederick,
Selling Mrs. Consumer
(New York: Business Bourse, 1929), p. 186.

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"Fancy cooking cutlets": Maud Lancaster,
Electric Cooking, Heating, Cleaning, Etc.: Being a Manual of Electricity in the Service of the Home,
ed. E. W. Lancaster (London: Constable, 1914), frontispiece.
"There is no household": A. E. Kennelly, "Electricity in the Household," in
Electricity in Daily Life: A Popular Account of the Applications of Electricity to Every Day Uses
(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891), p. 252.
"A traveler will find": "Electricity in the Household,"
Scientific American,
March 19, 1904, p. 232.
"can be very delicately": Ibid.
"Even an invalid": Ibid.

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"went after every kind": Harold Platt, interview, "Program Two: Electric Nation," in
Great Projects: The Building of America,
http://www.pbs.org/greatprojects/interviews/platt_i.html
(accessed April 7, 2009).

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"A tin can": Frederick,
Selling Mrs. Consumer,
p. 157.

168 "electricity, the unseen": Hungerford, "Night Glow of the City," p. 14.
"Woman has been": Mary Pattison, "The Abolition of Household Slavery," in
Giant Power: Large Scale Electrical Development as a Social Factor,
ed. Morris Llewellyn Cooke (Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1925), p. 124.
"They have let go": H. R. Kelso,
House Furnishing Review,
July 1919, quoted in Lifshey,
The Housewares Story,
p. 289.

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"As a matter of fact":
Ladies' Home Journal,
quoted in Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English,
For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women
(Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1978), p. 135.
"We can see and feel": Frederick W Taylor,
The Principles of Scientific Management,
1911, Modern History SourceBook,
http//www.fordham.edu/HALSALL/MOD/1911taylor.html
(accessed March 26, 2006).
"The cry of the home": Pattison, "The Abolition of Household Slavery," pp. 126–27.

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"Because we housewives":
Ladies' Home Journal,
quoted in Ehrenreich and English,
For Her Own Good,
p. 162.

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"Rise from bed": F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby
(New York: Scribner, 2004), p. 173.
"When the gas": Brian Bowers,
Lengthening the Day: A History of Lighting Technology
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 132.
"In the parlor": Kennelly, "Electricity in the Household," p. 246.
"When they say": E. B. White, "Sabbath Morn," in
One Man's Meat,
enl. ed. (New York: Harper & Row, 1944), p. 51.

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"Walk around the outside": Charles Frederick Weller,
Neglected Neighbors: Stories of Life in the Alleys, Tenements and Shanties of the National Capital
(Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1909), pp. 10–11.

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"The whites generally occupied": David Hajdu,
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
(New York: North Point Press, 2000), p. 7.
"ironing beside": Weller,
Neglected Neighbors,
pp. 17–19.
"the perspiring woman": Ibid., pp 82–83.

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"each day was a scuffle": Ethel Waters, with Charles Samuels,
His Eye Is on the Sparrow: An Autobiography
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951), p. 46.
"The prettiest sight": Ibid., pp. 18–19.

C
HAPTER
12: A
LONE IN THE
D
ARK

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"They are pronounced": James Agee and Walker Evans,
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988), pp. 265–66.

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"will be a highly skilled": Quoted in Clark C. Spence, "Early Uses of Electricity in American Agriculture,"
Technology and Culture
3, no. 2 (Spring 1962): 150.
"not improbably":
Country Gentleman,
quoted ibid., p. 144.

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"There was no quittin'": Quoted in Mary Ellen Romeo,
Darkness to Daylight: An Oral History of Rural Electrification in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
(Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association, 1986), p. 13.

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"You could milk a cow": Quoted ibid., pp. 18–19.
"Winter mornings": Quoted in Robert A. Caro,
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), p. 503.

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"I would have to get": Quoted ibid., p. 505.
"You see how round": Quoted ibid.
"I have always lived": Quoted in Katherine Jellison,
Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913–1963
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993), p. 14.
"I got up many": Quoted in Romeo,
Darkness to Daylight,
p. 12.
"By the time": Quoted in Caro,
The Years of Lyndon Johnson,
p. 509.

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"Our artificial light": Jimmy Carter,
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), p. 31.
"You know, you couldn't": Quoted in Romeo,
Darkness to Daylight,
p. 19.

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"this jazz-industrial age": M. L. Wilson, quoted in Russell Lord, "The Rebirth of Rural Life, Part 2,"
Survey Graphic
30, no. 12 (December 1941),
http://newdeal.feri.org/survey/sg41687.htm
(accessed March 12, 2006).
"This is the test": David E. Nye,
Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890–1930
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985), photo, insert after p. 134.

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"The thing [the farm woman] needs": Quoted in Jellison,
Entitled to Power,
p. 13.
"We would like": Quoted ibid., p. 67.
"everything had already": Quoted in Caro,
The Years of Lyndon Johnson,
p. 512.
"the kind of oil": William T. O'Dea,
The Social History of Lighting
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958), p. 56.
"Kerosene light": Agee and Evans,
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,
p. 211.

183 "A blown-out electric bulb": Ibid., pp. 437–38.
"street lighting in the United States": David E. Nye,
Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), p. 140.

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 "provide a link": Quoted in Jonathan Coopersmith,
The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992), p. 154.
"displayed an illuminated map": Ibid., p. 1.
"Ten years ago": Harold Evans, "The World's Experience with Rural Electrification," in
Giant Power: Large Scale Electrical Development as a Social Factor,
ed. Morris Llewellyn Cooke (Philadelphia: Academy of Political and Social Science, 1925), p. 33.

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 "the kw.h. production": Ibid., p. 36.
"far off above Manhattan": "Edison Is Buried on 52d Anniversary of Electric Light,"
New York Times,
October 22, 1931, p. 1.

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 "Mr. Hoover left it": "Nation to Be Dark One Minute Tonight After Edison Burial,"
New York Times,
October 21, 1931, p. 1.

C
HAPTER
13: R
URAL
E
LECTRIFICATION

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 "It is more important":
Report of the Country Life Commission: Report and Special Message from the President of the United States,
60th Cong., 2d sess., Senate Document 705 (Spokane, WA: Chamber of Commerce, 1911), pp. 30–31, Core Historical Literature of Agriculture,
http://chla.library.cornell.edu
(accessed February 15, 2008).
"drive a wedge": Martha Bensley Bruère, "What Is Giant Power For?" in
Giant Power: Large Scale Electrical Development as a Social Factor,
ed. Morris Llewellyn Cooke (Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1925), p. 120.

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 "When the first-of-the-month": Franklin Delano Roosevelt, quoted in Jackie Kennedy, "Seeds for America's Rural Electricity Sprouted in Diverse Power Service Territory,"
http://www.diversepower.com/history_heritage.php
(accessed February 14, 2008).

189 "Power is really": Press conference, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Warm Springs, GA, November 23, 1934,
http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/FDRspeeches/FDRspeech34-2.htm
(accessed July 9, 2009).

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 "Now the Alcorn County": Ibid.
"There must have been": David E. Lilienthal,
The Journals of David E. Lilienthal,
vol. 1,
The TVA Years, 1939–1945
(New York: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 52.

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 "full even without": Eleanor Buckles,
Valley of Power
(New York: Creative Age Press, 1945), p. 18.
"And since there wasn't": Quoted in Michael J. McDonald and John Muldowny,
TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982), p. 40.

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 "I guess they felt": John Rice Irwin, quoted ibid., p. 57.
"And the people": Ibid.

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 "From all this": Cranston Clayton, "The TVA and the Race Problem,"
Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life
12, no. 4 (April 1934): 111,
http://newdeal.feri.org/search_details.cfm?link=http://newdeal.feri.org/opp/opp34111.htm
(accessed March 12, 2006).

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 "A malaria-ridden": Buckles,
Valley of Power,
p. 123.
"We were all": John Carmody, quoted in Dr. Tom Venables, "The Early Days: A Visit with John M. Carmody,"
Rural Electrification
19, no. 1 (October 1960): 20.

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 "Initially ... the REA": Katherine Jellison,
Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913–1963
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993), p. 98.
"Construction crews ... have dug":
Rural Electrification on the March
(Washington, DC: Rural Electrification Administration, July 1938), p. 7.
"An Indiana woman": Richard A. Pence, ed.,
The Next Greatest Thing: 50 Years of Rural Electrification in America
(Washington, DC: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, 1984), p. 95.

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 "In Virginia, a co-op": Ibid., p. 88.

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 "I had gotten": Quoted in Mary Ellen Romeo,
Darkness to Daylight: An Oral History of Rural Electrification in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
(Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association, 1986), p. 61.
"We had a large": Jimmy Carter,
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), p. 32.
"The day we got": Quoted in
Rural Lines—USA: The Story of Cooperative Rural Electrification,
rev. ed. (N.p.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1981), p. 14.

200 "They report that": Quoted in Romeo,
Darkness to Daylight,
p. 68.
"I think the best day": Jimmy Carter, quoted in
Rural Lines—USA,
p. 12.
"We felt like": Quoted in Romeo,
Darkness to Daylight,
p. 100.
"Electricity changed the country": Quoted ibid.

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 "was wonderful": Quoted ibid., p. 55.
"I'll never forget": Quoted ibid.
For those in cities: Edward Hopper's painting is titled
Nighthawks
(1942).
"That light in the kitchen": Quoted in Romeo,
Darkness to Daylight,
pp. 55–56.
"Some of them wanted": Quoted ibid., p. 58.

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 "I've seen this happen": Quoted ibid., p. 56.
"Buried here May 3": Photo, ibid., p. 59.
"What is electricity": Hurst Mauldin and William A. Cochran Jr.,
Electricity for the Farm
(N.p.: Alabama Power Company, 1960), p. 1.