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.
School Excursion on the Staten Island Ferry, Crossing Upper New York Bay, 1973
Photographer: Arthur Tress
Municipal Incineration Plant and Landfill Dump at Gravesend Bay Serves as Playground for Neighborhood Boys, 1973
Photographer: Arthur Tress
Arthur Tress Brooklyn New York 1973 DOCUMERICA photography the seventies
