In 1971, the Environmental Protection Agency created the DOCUMERICA Project, a program designed to document and catalogue the effects of the EPA in its efforts towards environmental conservation. After six years, the program was shut down, but the end result was a massive archive of images gathered by over 100 freelance photographers from all across America. A large part of these photographs are now housed on the US National Archives' online catalogue (as well as its Flickr page). These are my favorites.
Members of the Golden Circle Senior Citizen Club of Fairmont Holding Quilt They Made. The Quilt Was Raffled Off During the Fairmont Centennial in May, 1973
Photographer: Charles O’Rear
