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.
![Young Girl Sits on the Porch Steps Daydreaming While Her Cat Sniffs Flowers […], 1975
Photographer: Lyntha Scott Eiler](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1njndnkxy1qbf02no1_500.jpg)
Young Girl Sits on the Porch Steps Daydreaming While Her Cat Sniffs Flowers […], 1975
Photographer: Lyntha Scott Eiler
Woman Sits in Her Car Watching the Readings on the Exhaust Analyzer in an Auto Emission Inspection Station in Norwood, Ohio Her Auto Was Being Retested after Failing the First Time It Was Inspected, 1975
Photographer: Lyntha Scott Eiler
Fountain Square Is Downtown Cincinnati’s Popular Public Plaza. Balloons Released at the Square at Noon Mark the Opening of Carthage Fair in Cincinnati, 1973
Photographer: Tom Hubbard
Tom Hubbard Cincinnati Ohio 1973 DOCUMERICA photography the seventies
