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EPA: Environmental Studies / 1970's Archive

• https://www.archives.gov/research/environment/documerica-highlights.html

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 National Archives digitized part of the series "Documerica".

More than 15,000 of these images are available in the National Archives Catalog.

• https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2009/spring/documerica.html

When we look at images of today’s environment, we can see that what troubles the environment in the new millennium is what troubled it in the early 1970s, and DOCUMERICA confirms it. Thousands of images of pollution, strip mining, crowded cities, and land abuse could well be photographs taken in recent times. Though a great deal has been done over the past 30 years to correct problems depicted in the photographs, there is a common consensus that there is so much left to accomplish in the race to save America’s natural resources. The color images from the 1970s show us that Americans must keep lenses sharply focused until environmental solutions are realized. Project DOCUMERICA images serve to inform and inspire Americans as we pursue the green revolution of the new millennium.

https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2009/spring/images/documerica-miner-l.jpg

• https://www.archives.gov/research/environment/documerica-topics.html

• https://www.archives.gov/research/environment/documerica-geographic.html

• https://www.archives.gov/research/environment/documerica-photographers.html

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