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.
At the Base of the “Bridal Veil” Falls on the American Side, a Group of Yellow Raincoated Tourists Observe the Plunging Waters out on the River, a “Maid-of-the-Mist” Sightseeing Boat Plies from Shore to Shore, 1973
Photographer: George Burns
George Burns Niagara Falls New York 1973 DOCUMERICA photography
