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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 "DOC…

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    Owner of the First House Made Completely from Empty Steel Beer and Soft Drink Cans Sits in His Living Room near Taos, New Mexico, 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, 06/1974

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    Descending Into the Maze from near Chimney Rock, Using Mountaineers' "Rappeling" Technique, 05/1972

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    There Is Some Local Opposition to Stripping the Land in Southeastern Ohio, 10/1973

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    Interior of Graffiti-Marked 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 and John Ricks in Front of the Local Drugstore. 11/1972

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    Kayaks on the Upper Reaches of the Androscoggin River, 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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    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, 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 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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    Greased Pig Contest at the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company First Annual Picnic Held near Jasper and Chattanooga, Tennessee 08/1974

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    Arkansas--Fort Smith, 05/1972

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    David Shanklin, 19, and His Girlfriend, Janet Edwards, 17, in a Coal Company Town near Sunbright, West Virginia, 04/1974

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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, 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. He Works as a Mechanic at the City's Repair Garage. 10/1974

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    Participants Looking over the Esb "Sundancers", an Experimental Electric Car at the First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development, 10/1973

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    An Electric Car Gets Battery Charge with the Ebs Electric "Sundancer" in the background at the First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development, 10/1973

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    The Brookfield Pond Area Traditional Ice-Cutting Festival Where Free Rides Are Offered in a Horse-Drawn Sleigh, 02/1974

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    This Dairy Farmer near Randolph Center, Vermont, Averages About 400 Gallons of Maple Syrup Each Spring, 04/1974

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    Miner Wayne Gipson, 39, with His Daughter Tabitha, 3. He Has Just Gotten Home From His Job as a Conveyor Belt Operator in a Non-Union Mine, 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, 04/1974

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    August Brings the "D'aug Days" a Month Long Festival of Arts to Fountain Square, 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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    Original Caption: Young Bull Caribou Crosses Gravel Roadway near Mile 0, 08/1973

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