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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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    • Dec 31, 1969 LATEST EPISODE
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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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    owner beer empty steel soda sits living room cans aluminium first house taos new mexico
    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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    wall beer construction housing empty steel experimental soda cans aluminium taos new mexico
    Descending Into the Maze from near Chimney Rock, Using Mountaineers' "Rappeling" Technique, 05/1972

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    technique climbing harness maze descending chimney rock
    There Is Some Local Opposition to Stripping the Land in Southeastern Ohio, 10/1973

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    land ohio local opposition mining stripping southeastern
    Interior of Graffiti-Marked Subway Car. 05/1973

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    interior subway marked graffiti spraypaint
    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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    water damage suit holds pollution coal filed workman potable
    Cut-Rate Gas Station Operates Out of Bus, 06/1972

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    school fuel gas station operates
    W.G. Leistikon and John Ricks in Front of the Local Drugstore. 11/1972

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    local front window cowboy ricks drugstore
    Kayaks on the Upper Reaches of the Androscoggin River, 06/1973

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    water reaches upper rapids kayaks androscoggin
    Aziscohos Dam in the Rangeley Lakes Region in the Mountains of Western Maine 06/1973

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    water western maine mountains floodgates lakes region rangeley
    Barn in Bethel, on the Androscoggin River ... 06/1973

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    barn stable bethel androscoggin
    Young New Yorker Ready to Roar Off on His Honda 06/1973

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    young new yorker bike honda roar motorcycle
    Snack Bar in Summer Community of Broad Channel on Jamaica Bay. 05/1973

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    community bar snacks clam jamaica bay broad channel
    Abandoned Car in Jamaica Bay 06/1973

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    abandoned volkswagen beetle jamaica bay
    Old Buoys on Wharf in Staten Island 05/1973

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    staten island dock harbor wharf buoys
    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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    elevators coal miners shaft pocahontas hard hats headlamp
    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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    coal miners portraits pocahontas hard hats headlamp midnight shift
    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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    black west virginia smoking raleigh small town pipe portion beckley
    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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    safety dark underground glow miners lamp small groups shown shutter transporting bathed
    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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    preparation contest equipment coal kentucky state safety team mine safety
    Loaded Coal Cars Sit in the Rail Yards at Danville, West Virginia, near Charleston. Awaiting Shipment to Customers...04/1974

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    cars customers west virginia charleston yards loaded coal railroads rail awaiting danville shipments
    Rear View of Supervisors' Housing in Dehue, West Virginia, a Youngstown Steel Corporation Company Town 04/1974

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    housing west virginia steel corporations yards fence youngstown rearview company town
    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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    friend beer west virginia bought joint wheelchairs seated operates jack smith workers union united mine workers
    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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    west virginia stoop beckley coal miners city club city west
    The Atlas Chemical Company Belches Smoke across Pasture Land in Foreground. 06/1972

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    land horses smoke pollution chemical pasture foreground
    Smokestacks of Chemical Plant 11/1972

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    factory pollution chemical plant
    Sunset over Olin-Mathieson Plant 06/1972

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    plant smoke sunsets olin cranes mathieson
    Greased Pig Contest at the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company First Annual Picnic Held near Jasper and Chattanooga, Tennessee 08/1974

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    kids contest coal picnic first annual consolidated greased chattanooga tennessee
    Arkansas--Fort Smith, 05/1972

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

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    west virginia girlfriends edwards bike coal motorcycle shanklin company town
    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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    school valley west virginia houses typical aerial company town
    Children in Fort Smith Are Learning That Protecting the Environment Will Take More Than Awareness, 06/1972

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    learning children school environment protecting fort smith
    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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    water effects plant robinson pollution generating crab claws thermal studied marine life
    Martin-Pena Area of Puerto Rico, 04/1972

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    girl puerto rico pena graffiti
    Modern Buildings Tower over the Shanties Crowded Along the Martin Pena Canal 02/1973

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    modern tower canal pena buildings crowded skyline shanties
    Abandoned Car Under a Palm Tree at Rincon 02/1973

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    water abandoned automobiles palm trees rincon
    A New Father Holds His Child for the First Time in Loretto Hospital in New Ulm, Minnesota, 10/1974

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    babies child minnesota birth hospitals holds loretto new father new ulm
    Trying To Hear, 05/1973

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    lawnmowers mower
    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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    wolf emergency large volunteers garage repair mechanics firefighters lieutenant fire departments close up whitey brushfire
    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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    hybrid experimental pollution automobiles symposium electric cars power systems systems development
    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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    charge hybrid batteries pollution automobiles symposium electric cars power systems sundancer systems development
    The Brookfield Pond Area Traditional Ice-Cutting Festival Where Free Rides Are Offered in a Horse-Drawn Sleigh, 02/1974

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    festival horses snow traditional cutting rides freeze pond drawn offered brookfield sleigh
    This Dairy Farmer near Randolph Center, Vermont, Averages About 400 Gallons of Maple Syrup Each Spring, 04/1974

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    spring tree snow vermont randolph maple syrup dairy farmers averages gallons
    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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    daughter dust belt coal operator miners gipson conveyor non union
    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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    lunch shower bench coal miners spreads pocahontas lunchbox thermos
    August Brings the "D'aug Days" a Month Long Festival of Arts to Fountain Square, 08/1973

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    water child arts festival fountain square
    Downtown Parking Lot, 08/1973

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    cars downtown automobiles parking lot
    Caribou Trot Across the Tundra, near Prudhoe Bay Where the Pipeline Will Start, 08/1973

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    oil grass pipeline caribou tundra trot
    Original Caption: Young Bull Caribou Crosses Gravel Roadway near Mile 0, 08/1973

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    original oil mile pipeline crosses gravel caribou caption roadway young bull

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