EXHIBITION CATALOG
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01. World Trade Center (Left) and Lower Hudson River Shipping Seen From the Staten Island Ferry 05/1973. Photographer: Wil Blanche
02. Construction bottleneck on H-1 Freeway approaching Honolulu from the west during morning rush hour. Commuters come from such fast-growing areas as Pearl City and Mililani Town, 1973. Фотограф: Чарльз О'Рир
03. A Nebraskan for more than half his life, Charlie Gross has farmed, boxed, raised dogs and sold hosiery and light bulbs, May 1973. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
04. "Mazdas" await shipment, June 1972. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
05. Las Vegas shopping center, May 1972. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
06. Saturday auction near Hickman, 15 miles south of Lincoln, May 1973. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
07.Looking from Old Bridge at Northern Avenue 05/1973. Photographer: Ernst Halberstadt
08. Stewart Udall, Former Secretary of the Interior and a Longtime Supporter of a Tallgrass Prairie National Park, 09/1974. Photographer: Patricia D. Duncan
09. Motorcyclist Loading His Possession on a Truck with the Help of His Friends at Leakey, Texas, near San Antonio, 05/1973. Photographer: Marc St. Gil
10. City Hall and Customs House Tower 05/1973. Photographer: Ernst Halberstadt
11. The John Hancock Building, Conceived as a Bright Windowed Dream of a Skyscraper, Has Become a Broken Windowed Nightmare 01/1973. Photographer: Ernst Halberstadt
12. Houses in the Town of Mexico on the Androscoggin River Just Across from Rumford 06/1973. Photographer: Charles Steinhacker
13. MBTA (Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority) Train Roars Past Northeastern Side of Neptune Road 05/1973. Photographer: Michael Philip Manheim
14. This Woman Lives on a Dairy Farm near Randolph Center Vermont, That Has Been Owned by the Family for Six Generations Low Milk Prices and Increasing Property Taxes Threaten Her Way of Life 06/1974. Photographer: Jane Cooper
15. After service at the Immanuel Lutheran Church on Highway 34 near Garland, May 1973. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
16. The Wayne Gipson Family Says a Prayer before Their Evening Meal in the Kitchen of Their Modern Home near Gruetli, near Chattanooga, Tennessee 12/1974. Photographer: Jack Corn
17. Abandoned church at dusk on north side of Interstate 80, May 1973. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
18. Farmland of the Imperial Valley, and the Salton Sea infrared film, May 1972. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
19. Texaco Crude Oil Tank Blazes Against the Night after Being Struck by Lightning, 09/1972. Photographer: Jim Olive
20. Sound Advice on a Car Parked in a Lot on West Street, near the Newly Constructed World Trade Center 05/1973. Photographer: Wil Blanche
21. Gasoline Stations Abandoned During the Fuel Crisis in the Winter of 1973-74 Were Sometimes Used for Other Purposes. This Station at Potlatch, Washington, West of Olympia Was Turned Into a Religious Meeting Hall. Signs Painted on the Gas Pumps Proclaim "Fill Up with the Holy Ghost... And Salvation." 04/1974. Photographer: David Falconer
22. Dimensions of the Littering Problem Are Suggested by This Heap of Cold Drink Cans, Salvaged by Girl Scouts at Islamorada in the Central Florida Keys. Photographer: Flip Schulke
23. Stacked Cars In City Junkyard Will Be Used For Scrap, August 1973. Photographer: Dick Swanson
24. After the Oregon Governor Banned Neon and Commercial Lighting Displays, Firms Used Their Unlit Signs to Convey Energy Saving Messages Which Could Be Seen During the Day. The Sign Was in Portland 10/1973. Photographer: David Falconer
25. "Viewing" Site for Visitors at Portland Airport - And the View They Leave behind Them 05/1973. Photographer: David Falconer
26. Fountain Square in Downtown Cincinnati Is a Public Square That Works for the City and Its People in a Myriad of Ways: School Class Takes a Lunch Break 05/1973. Photographer: Tom Hubbard
27. Young Woman Sips a Soft Drink While Riding behind Her Friend on a Horse at Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, near Emporia, 06/1974. Photographer: Patricia D. Duncan
28. Teenager in Second Ward, Chicano Neighborhood, El Paso, Texas 06/1972. Photographer: Danny Lyon
29. View of the Main Street of White Cloud, Kansas, near Troy, in the Northeast Corner of the State, 10/1974. Photographer: Patricia D. Duncan
30. After a Long Winter without Having a Smiling Service Station Operator Offer to Wash the Windows and Check the Tires a Driver From West of the Cascades Had to Drive East of the Mountains to Find Such Service as at This Station 02/1974. Photographer: David Falconer
31. Country's Fuel Shortage Led to Problems for Motorists in Finding Gas as Well as Paying Much More for It, and Resulted in Theft From Cars Left Unprotected. This Father and Son, Made a Sign Warning Thieves of the Possible Consequences 04/1974. Photographer: David Falconer
32. Simple Rockport Window. Bearskin Neck at Rockport 02/1973. Photographer: Deborah Parks
33. The First Deer Casualty of the Hunting Season Is Tied to Top of Automobile. Leakey Gasoline Station 11/1972. Photographer: Marc St. Gil
34. The Town of New Ulm, Minnesota, Was Founded in 1854 by a Group of German Immigrants. Housing There Runs the Gamut From 19th Century Styles to Ones Popular Today. This Small Home Is Decorated for Halloween, 10/1974. Photographer: David Rees
35. Three Boys and "A Train" Graffiti in Brooklyn's Lynch Park in New York City. The Inner City Today Is an Absolute Contradiction to the Main Stream America of Gas Stations, Expressways, Shopping Centers and Tract Homes. It Is Populated by Blacks, Latins and the White Poor. Most of All, the Inner City Environment Is Human Beings as Beautiful and Threatened as the 19th Century Buildings 06/1974. Photographer: Danny Lyon
36. Boys Playing Frisbee Across West 46th Street in Manhattan New York City, 07/1974. Photographer: Danny Lyon
37. Second Ward, the Spanish Speaking Section, El Paso, Texas. Photographer: Danny Lyon
38. Second Ward, the Spanish Speaking Section, El Paso, Texas. Photographer: Danny Lyon
39. Second Ward, the Spanish Speaking Section, El Paso, Texas. Photographer: Danny Lyon
40. Albuquerque Speedway Park, One of Three Stock Car Race Tracks in Albuquerque. Photographer: Danny Lyon
41. Highway 11 passing over 1868 lava flow near Waiohinu. Lava flows, as recent as 1973, have impaired the quality of the land for agricultural use. Devastated trees can be seen in the background, November 1973. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
42. Night lights, May 1972. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
43. Visitors sunbathing at Lake Mead, May 1972. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
44. Hitchhiker with His Dog "Tripper" on U.S. 66, May 1972. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
45. Resident of South Beach. The Area Has a Heavy Concentration of Retirement Age People. Photographer: Flip Schulke
46. Polta Drugstore on Minnesota Street in New Ulm, Minnesota in the Past Five Years Local Merchants on the Main Street Have Restored the Fronts of Many of the Old Buildings. Photographer: Flip Schulke
47. Dust Storm. Photographer: Terry Eiler
48. London Bridge crosses Havasu Lake at Lake Havasu City rescued from demolition by an American buyer, the famous old span was transplanted here in 1971, May 1972. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
49. Parker Dam on the Colorado River forms the eastern end of the 150-mile metropolitan aqueduct which supplies drinking water to Los Angeles and intermediate cities, May 1972. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
50. Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead and supplies electricity to Los Angeles, May 1972. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
51. Cars abandoned in a field run-off area are visible only from the air, May 1973. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
52. Open Garbage Dump on Highway 112, North of San Sebastian 02/1973. Photographer: John Vachon
53. Palo Seco Electric Power Plant Across the Bay From San Juan 02/1973. Photographer: John Vachon
54. Hiram Lilly, 84, Stands on the Porch of His Daughter's Home in Fireco, near Beckley, West Virginia. The Retired Miner Lives with Her Fireco Was Once a Great Mining Town, But the Region Has Been Mined Out 05/1974. Photographer: Jack Corn
55. Jack Smith, 42, a Disabled Miner in Rhodell, West Virginia, Is Wheeled Down the Street by His Daughter, Donna, 16, to the Beer Joint He Operates 06/1974. Photographer: Jack Corn
56. One of a Series of Portraits of Miners Waiting to Go to Work on the 4 P.M. to Midnight Shift at the Virginia-Pocahontas Coal Company Mine #4 near Richlands, Virginia. He Is "Hunkering" (Squatting) Which Is a Familiar Pose for Many of the Miners When They Are Resting. The Stance Is Used Down in the Mines Because Many of the Tunnels Do Not Allow a Man to Stand Erect 04/1974. Photographer: Jack Corn
57. Clogged Stream at Entrance to Great Kills Park on Staten Island. 05/1973. Photographer: Arthur Tress
58. Martin-Pena Area of Puerto Rico 04/1972. Photographer: Ken Heyman
39. Oil Refinery in the Sunset 02/1973. Photographer: John Vachon
60. Transmission lines and railroad near Salton Sea. District of Los Angeles smog obscures the sun, May 1972. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
61. Abandoned House near Land Strip Mined by Coal Companies near the Intersection of Interstate 70 and Route #800, and Morristown, Ohio. 07/1974. Photographer: Erik Calonius
62. Road near San Juan, Puerto Rico 02/1973. Photographer: John Vachon
63. Overlooking the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan, the Towers of the World Trade Center Soar Skyward to a Height of 1,350 Feet 05/1973. Photographer: Wil Blanche
64. Elevated Railroad Structure and Blighted Area below Washington Street South from the Corner of Bartlett 02/1973. Photographer: Ernst Halberstadt
65. Auto Accident on Storrow Drive, 9 a.m. 02/1973. Photographer: Ernst Halberstadt
66. Washington Street Under the El, Looking Toward Egleston Square 02/1973. Photographer: Ernst Halberstadt
67. The Common, and, behind It, the Landscaped Public Gardens Provide Rest and Recreation in Metropolitan Boston. The Young Lady Is Amplifying the Sun's Rays to Speed a Suntan 04/1973. Photographer: Ernst Halberstadt
68. On the Staten Island Ferry in New York Harbor's Upper Bay 05/1973. Photographer: Wil Blanche
69. Lunch-Hour Nap in Battery Park, Lower Manhattan 05/1973. Photographer: Wil Blanche
70. Looking Toward the Southeast Expressway and Quincy Market Restoration 05/1973. Photographer: Ernst Halberstadt
71. Car Owner Questions a City Employee Sitting in Her Vehicle as It Is Tested at an Auto Emission Inspection Station in Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, 09/1975. Photographer: Lyntha Scott Eiler
72. Mother with Her Children at the Cashier's Window Paying for Her Annual Sticker after Her Car Had Successfully Passed Testing at an Auto Emission Inspection Station in Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, 09/1975. Photographer: Lyntha Scott Eiler
73. A Motorist Watches Gauges on an Exhaust Analyzer as His Car Is Being Tested at an Auto Emission Inspection Station in Norwood Ohio, 09/1975. Photographer: Lyntha Scott Eiler
74. Unhappy Motorist Learns That Her Car Has Failed the Test at an Auto Emission Inspection Station at Norwood, Ohio, 08/1975. Photographer: Lyntha Scott Eiler
75. Young Girl on a Visit to Her Grandmother in Norwood, Ohio, 08/1975. Photographer: Lyntha Scott Eiler
76. Shop Is Evacuated When A Barge Carrying Liquid Chlorine Threatened To Spill Its Poisonous Contents, April 1972. Photographer: William Strode
77. Black Man Operating A Newsstand In Chicago On The West Side The City Is Believed To Be The Black Business Capital Of The United States. Census Figures Show In 1970 There Were 8,747 Black Owned Businesses In The City That Grossed More Than $332 Million. But Black Capitalists Still Have More Trouble Staying In Business Once They Begin And The Main Reason Remains Racial Prejudice. Lack Of Capital Lack Of Business Expertise And Lack Of Support From The Black Community Are Other Factors, 06/1973. Photographer: John White
78. Surprise for Dick Christian (at table), at Beaver Crossing High School alumni party, May 1973. Photographer: Charles O'Rear
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80. Two Girls Smoking Pot During an Outing in Cedar Woods near Leakey, Texas. Near San Antonio 05/1973. Photographer: Marc St. Gil
81. Fountain Square in Downtown Cincinnati Is a Public Square That Works for the City and Its People in a Myriad of Ways: a Flower Vender Has Made a Sale 05/1973. Photographer: Tom Hubbard
82. American Dreams at Little Duck Key. Commercial Camping Sites and Travel Trailer Courts Have Sprung Up Throughout the Keys. Even on the Smaller Keys Like Little Duck, Where No Facilities Have Yet Been Constructed, Camping Is Permitted by Local Authorities. Photographer: Flip Schulke
83. Balloons Will Be Released in Fountain Square at Noontime to Announce Opening of Carthage Fair in Cincinnati 08/1973. Photographer: Tom Hubbard
84. Over Portland Airport 05/1973. Photographer: David Falconer
85. Colorado--South Park, 05/1972. Photographer: Boyd Norton
About the exhibition
The exhibition features photographs by various authors from the DOCUMERICA Project, the Environmental Protection Agency's Program to photographically document subjects of environmental concern, 1972–1977.
The program's archive of more than 15,000 slides is housed at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.