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.
Migrant Baby in Front of Two Room Shack, Where Three Families (Approximately 20 People) Live, 1972
Photographer: Bill Gillette
Migrant Workers Return Home at Dusk from a Day in the Sugar Beet Fields, 1972
Photographer: Bill Gillette
