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.
Passengers Waiting for an Amtrak Metroliner Train that Will Take Them from a Washington, District of Columbia, Suburb to New York City, 1974
Photographer: Jim Pickerell
Jim Pickerell Washington D.C. District of Columbia DOCUMERICA photography
![Commuter Framed by a Window Aboard a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Bus in Atlanta, Georgia […], 1974
Photographer: Jim Pickerell](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1tghdDqEp1qbf02no1_500.gif)
Commuter Framed by a Window Aboard a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Bus in Atlanta, Georgia […], 1974
Photographer: Jim Pickerell
![Passenger Crosses Tracks to Catch the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) Commuter Train For Downtown Philadelphia. The System Encompasses 157 Train and Bus Line and 2,790 Route Miles in the Metropolitan Area […], 1974
Photographer: Jim Pickerell](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1r6bcjpI71qbf02no1_500.gif)
Passenger Crosses Tracks to Catch the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) Commuter Train For Downtown Philadelphia. The System Encompasses 157 Train and Bus Line and 2,790 Route Miles in the Metropolitan Area […], 1974
Photographer: Jim Pickerell
