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by U.S. National Archives

For the Documerica Project (1971-1977), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life in the 1970s.

The U.S. National Archives digitized more than 15,000 photographs from the series Documerica (Local ID 412-DA) and included them in our online catalog. Our Web site has quick catalog search links for featured DOCUMERICA topics, locations, and photographers.

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Hitchhiker with His Dog "Tripper" on U.S. 66, May 1972

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The George Washington Bridge in Heavy Smog. View toward the New Jersey Side of the Hudson River.

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Earth, as Seen by Astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt from Apollo 17

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Jet Zooms Over Southwestern Side of Neptune Road

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Approaching Logan Airport

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Logan Airport Area. Little League Game on Land Loaned by Massport

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Milk Wort and Butterfly in the Texas Countryside, near San Antonio, 06/1973

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Woodrow Wilson, One of Leakey's Local Characters, in His Pickup. He Never Works, But Sits Staring at the River from 7 A.M until Sunset 06/1972

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Buffalo on Bell Ranch, 11/1972

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Campers in Garner State Park, 07/1972

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Burning Discarded Automobile Batteries, 07/1972

Sheared and Unsheared Sheep on a Ranch near Leakey, Texas and San Antonio. Sheared Sheep Are Marked Either for Return to Pasture Or the Slaughter House 05/1973

Empty Steel Beer and Soft Drink Cans Are Being Used to Build Experimental Housing near Taos, New Mexico. Designer Michael Reynolds Stands Next to an Interior Wall in One of the Structures. The Inside Walls Are Built with Cans in the Position Shown.

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Architect and Experimental House Builder Michael Reynolds Lives in This Structure Which Is a Compendium of His Experiments in the Field, near Taos, New Mexico. the Left Portion of the Structure with the Pyramid-Shaped Roof Has Been Built Using Empty Cans

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Owner of the First House Made Completely from Empty Steel Beer and Soft Drink Cans ..., 06/1974

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One Example of Wall Construction in Experimental Housing Using Empty Steel Beer and Soft Drink Cans near Taos, New Mexico Cans for Non-Load Bearing Walls Such as This Can Be Laid Horizontally and Will Be Plastered over When the House Is Completed ...

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Descending Into the Maze from near Chimney Rock, Using Mountaineers' "Rappeling" Technique. In This Remote Region of the Canyonlands There Are No Trails and No Means of Access Except by Rope And, Sometimes, by Steps Cut in the Rock, 05/1972

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There Is Some Local Opposition to Stripping the Land in Southeastern Ohio. Most People, However, Are Employed by the Coal Companies and Are Afraid Any Demands for Reform Will Cost Them Their Jobs. Off Route 800. 10/1973

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Interior of Graffiti-Marked Subway Car. 05/1973

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Subway Car. 05/1973

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Mary Workman Holds A Jar of Undrinkable Water That Comes from Her Well, and Has Filed A Damage Suit Against the Hanna Coal Company ..., 10/1973

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Cut-Rate Gas Station Operates Out of Bus, 06/1972

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W.G. Leistikon, 70; and John Ricks, 87, in Front of the Local Drugstore. Stumps in Front of Store Are Reserved for the "Old-Timers" 11/1972

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Kayaks on the Upper Reaches of the Androscoggin River, Just Below the Bridge at Errol 06/1973

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Aziscohos Dam in the Rangeley Lakes Region in the Mountains of Western Maine 06/1973

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Movie Theatre 06/1973

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Barn in Bethel, on the Androscoggin River ... 06/1973

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Young New Yorker Ready to Roar Off on His Honda 06/1973

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Snack Bar in Summer Community of Broad Channel on Jamaica Bay. 05/1973

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Abandoned Car in Jamaica Bay 06/1973

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Old Buoys on Wharf in Staten Island 05/1973

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Miners Line Up to Go Into the Elevator Shaft at the Virginia-Pocahontas Coal Company Mine #4 near Richlands, Virginia 04/1974

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One of a Series of Portraits of Miners Waiting to Go to Work on the 4 P.M. to Midnight Shift at the Virginia-Pocahontas Coal Company Mine #4 near Richlands, Virginia 04/1974

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Edward Austin, 64, Lives in the Black Portion of Fireco, a Small Town near Beckley, West Virginia, in Raleigh County...04/1974

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Miner Bathed in the Glow of a Co-Worker's Lamp Is Shown with a Shutter Car Used for Transporting Safety Men Or Other Small Groups 04/1974

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Members of a Coal Company Safety Team Don Their Equipment in Preparation for the Kentucky State Mine Safety Contest at Benham, near Cumberland, in Harlan County 10/1974

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Loaded Coal Cars Sit in the Rail Yards at Danville, West Virginia, near Charleston. Awaiting Shipment to Customers...04/1974

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Rear View of Supervisors' Housing in Dehue, West Virginia, a Youngstown Steel Corporation Company Town near Logan 04/1974

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Jack Smith, 42, Rhodell, West Virginia, Seated in the Beer Joint He Operates in a Wheel-Chair Bought for Him by His Friend Arnold Miller, President of the United Mine Workers Union...04/1974

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Coal City Club in Coal City, West Virginia, a Part of Beckley All of the Men Are Coal Miners 06/1974

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The Atlas Chemical Company Belches Smoke across Pasture Land in Foreground. 06/1972

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Smokestacks of Chemical Plant 11/1972

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Sunset over Olin-Mathieson Plant 06/1972

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Anxious Youngsters Begin the Chase in a Greased Pig Contest at the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company First Annual Picnic Held at a Tennessee Valley Authority Lake near Jasper and Chattanooga, Tennessee 08/1974

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Arkansas--Fort Smith, 05/1972

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David Shanklin, 19, Lives in a Coal Company Town near Sunbright, West Virginia, and Graduated From Logan County High School. His Girlfriend, Janet Edwards, 17, Still Attends High School in Logan...

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Aerial of a Typical Company Town near Logan, West Virginia with the School at One End and the Company Store at the Other Company Towns Are Becoming a Thing of the Past 04/1974

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Children in Fort Smith Are Learning That Protecting the Environment Will Take More Than Awareness ..., 06/1972

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Marine Life Taken From Water near the P.H. Robinson Generating Plant Will Be Studied for the Effects of Thermal Pollution, 07/1972

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Martin-Pena Area of Puerto Rico ..., 04/1972

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Modern Buildings Tower over the Shanties Crowded Along the Martin Pena Canal 02/1973

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Abandoned Car Under a Palm Tree at Rincon 02/1973

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A New Father Holds His Child for the First Time in Loretto Hospital in New Ulm, Minnesota ..., 10/1974

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Trying to hear ..., 05/1973

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Closeup of Volunteer Fire Department Lieutenant Wallace "Whitey" Wolf at a Large Brush Fire ..., 10/1974

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Exhibit at the First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development ..., 10/1973

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Exhibit at the First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development ..., 10/1973

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Every February on Brookfield Pond Area There Is a Traditional Ice-Cutting Festival ..., 02/1974

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This Dairy Farmer near Randolph Center, Vermont ..., 04/1974

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Miner Wayne Gipson, 39, with His Daughter Tabitha, 3. 12/1974

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Miner Spreads His Lunch Out on a Bench in the Shower and Time Card Room of the Virginia-Pocahontas Coal Company Mine #3 near Richlands, Virginia. He Hauls Equipments Into the Mine During His Work Shift 04/1974

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August Brings the "D'aug Days" to Fountain Square. "D'aug Days" Is a Month Long Festival of Arts Presented to, for, and Sometimes by, the People. At the Tyler Davidson Fountain, Taking a Bath Is Fun 08/1973

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Downtown Parking Lot 08/1973

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Caribou Trot Across the Tundra, near Prudhoe Bay Where the Pipeline Will Start 08/1973

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Young Bull Caribou Crosses Gravel Roadway near Mile 0 08/1973

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Patterned Ground, a Result of Massive Ice Formations, and a Small Stream Draining Northward From Galbraith Lake 08/1973

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A Young Female Fox near Galbraith Lake Camp 08/1973

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Day's Work Done, the Parka Squirrel Stands on the Bank and Surveys Its Domain. Franklin Bluffs in Background 08/1973

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Recreational Development of Lake Travis, Texas

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Lake Lyndon Johnson.

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Ski Emblems Decorate Door of Donovans, an Apres Ski Spot 02/1974

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Chair Lift Goes to the Top of Snowmass Mountain 01/1974

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Public Playground on the Charles River, near Soldiers Field Road 06/1973

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Public Playground on the Charles River, near Soldiers Field Road 06/1973

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Wool Mill in City Mills, One of Some 35 Manufacturing Cities and Towns on the Eighty Mile Charles River 03/1973

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A "City Farmer" Tends His Vegetables in the Fenway Gardens . . . 08/1973

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Fruits and Flowers at the Outdoor Market in Haymarket Square 05/1973

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Sound Advice on a Car Parked in a Lot on West Street, near the Newly Constructed World Trade Center 05/1973

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Rockport Harbor 02/1973

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Worker with the Rockport Public Works Department 02/1973

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The Rockport Congregational Church on Sunday Morning 02/1973

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Rockport's Barbershop 02/1973

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Rockport Fishermen Repair Their Lobster Boat 02/1973

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Mounted Horseman Who Will Take Part in a Parade through the Town of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, near Emporia, During Its Annual Flint Hills Rodeo, a Major Cultural Event of the Area...06/1974

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Rider with an American Flag on Horseback in a Parade on the Main Street of Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, near Emporia...06/1974

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Flocks of Blue Geese and Snow Geese Stop at the Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Mound City, Missouri, at the Northwest Corner of the State...10/1974

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Airborne Flocks of Blue Geese and Snow Geese Stop at the Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Mound City, Missouri, at the Northwest Corner of the State...10/1974

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Rear Window of a Car Shows a "Save the Tallgrass Prairie" Sticker...09/1974

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Burrough Audubon Society Members Use Binoculars to Identify Migratory Shore Birds...02/1975

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Children Play in Yard of Ruston Home...08/1972

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Trash and Old Tires Litter the Shore at the Middle Branch of Baltimore Harbor, 01/1973.

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The Goergetown Gap, Through Which Raw Sewage Flows into the Potomac. Watergate Complex in the Rear, 04/1973.

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Illegal Dumping Area Off the New Jersey Turnpike, Facing Manhattan Across the Hudson River...03/1973

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Clark Avenue and Clark Avenue Bridge. Looking East from West 13th Street, Are Obscured by Smoke from Heavy Industry, 07/1973.

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The Donald Cook Nuclear Power Plant is Still Under Construction. Lake Michigan at Bridgman, 08/1973.

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