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.
![Group of Miners and Their Families Relaxing at the First Annual Company Picnic Sponsored by the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company near Jasper and Chattanooga […], 1974
Photographer: Jack Corn](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1r577JBkC1qbf02no1_500.gif)
Group of Miners and Their Families Relaxing at the First Annual Company Picnic Sponsored by the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company near Jasper and Chattanooga […], 1974
Photographer: Jack Corn
![The Glow of a Miner’s Lamp Illuminates the Head of a Co-Worker as His Lamp Shines on His Work in a Mine of the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company near Jasper and Chattanooga Tennessee […], 1974
Photographer: Jack Corn](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1r4lb8Kcd1qbf02no1_500.gif)
The Glow of a Miner’s Lamp Illuminates the Head of a Co-Worker as His Lamp Shines on His Work in a Mine of the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company near Jasper and Chattanooga Tennessee […], 1974
Photographer: Jack Corn
Tennessee—Near Nashville, 1972
Photographer: William Strode
![Anxious Youngsters Begin the Chase in a Greased Pig Contest at the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company First Annual Picnic Held at a Tennessee Valley Authority Lake near Jasper and Chattanooga, Tennessee […], 1974
Photographer: Jack Corn](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1r465T51D1qbf02no1_500.gif)
Anxious Youngsters Begin the Chase in a Greased Pig Contest at the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company First Annual Picnic Held at a Tennessee Valley Authority Lake near Jasper and Chattanooga, Tennessee […], 1974
Photographer: Jack Corn
![The Wayne Gipson Family Says a Prayer Before Their Evening Meal in The Kitchen of Their Modern Home near Gruetli, near Chattanooga, Tennessee. They Has a Simple Meal of Stew, Iced Tea and Crackers […], 1974
Photographer: Jack Corn](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1r3meBo4m1qbf02no1_500.gif)
The Wayne Gipson Family Says a Prayer Before Their Evening Meal in The Kitchen of Their Modern Home near Gruetli, near Chattanooga, Tennessee. They Has a Simple Meal of Stew, Iced Tea and Crackers […], 1974
Photographer: Jack Corn
![Miner Wayne Gipson, 39, with His Daughter Tabitha, 3. He Has Just Gotten Home from His Job as a Conveyor Belt Operator in a Non-Union Mine […], 1974
Photographer: Jack Corn](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1r5kgl3VK1qbf02no1_500.jpg)
Miner Wayne Gipson, 39, with His Daughter Tabitha, 3. He Has Just Gotten Home from His Job as a Conveyor Belt Operator in a Non-Union Mine […], 1974
Photographer: Jack Corn
Visual Pollution Along Interstate 24, 1972
Photographer: William Strode
