Documentary America - ecological crisis 70s (46 photos)

In the late '60s, the rapid development of the United States after the war began seriously to affect the environment, and residents were worried. In November 1971, the new Agency for Environmental Protection (EPA) has organized a large-scale documentary photo project called DOCUMERICA, to capture these changes. More than 100 photographers were hired not only to capture the environment, but also to take photographs of everyday life, which show how we interact with nature, as well as to capture, as some parts of the United States looked at that moment for history. By 1974, it was made more than 80 thousand photos. The National Archives has published 15 thousand of them. Of them were selected and these 46 pictures for this post.

1. Pipe Plant, John Amos rise over the house on the other side of the river Kanavha, near Pokey, West Virginia, in August 1973. (Harry Schaefer / NARA)



2. One of these four girls on bicycles could not stand the roar of the plane and covering her ears in Washington in May 1973. (John Neubauer / NARA)



3. Street and Clark Avenue Bridge to the east of West 13th Street, covered by industrial smoke in Cleveland, Ohio, July 73rd. (Frank J. Aleksandrowicz / NARA)



4. Airship over sewage in Oregon, near Eugene. (NARA)



5. Mount old oil drums at the plant near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, December 72 th. (John Messina / NARA)



6. A man in a subway car and graffiti in New York in May 73rd. (Erik Calonius / NARA)



7. Construction site on the west side of Lower Manhattan, just north of the World Trade Center in May 73rd. (Wil Blanche / NARA)



8. Oil rigs in the Gulf off the coast of Galveston Texas in June of '72. (Blair Pittman / NARA)



9. View of Mount Drum (at an altitude of 3658 m) at the crossroads of Highway Glen Highway and Trans-Alaska oil pipeline in August 74th. Pipeline 121 cm in diameter will cross the road at the point where the right shows two wooden pegs. (Dennis Cowals / NARA)



10. Camp for builders in Prospect Creek. The eastern side of this picture is the pipeline, and the road will pass under the lower hills from left to right, from north to south. Picture taken August 73rd. (Dennis Cowals / NARA)



11. Exhibition at the first symposium on systems of low pollution, which took place in «Marriott Motor Inn» in Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 73rd year. (Frank Lodge / NARA)



12. Empty cans of beer and carbonated drinks make up the walls of the pilot house near Taos, New Mexico, in June 74th. Designer Michael Reynolds stands next to his creation. The walls of the house are made of cans. External walls of the house are made of eight cans in one unit. For residential buildings, which, according to Reynolds, one can construct 20% cheaper, it took about 70 thousand cans. (David Hiser / NARA)



13. Judge Fred Bruns on the way to the court in Lincoln, Nebraska, in May 1972. (Charles O'Rear / NARA)



14. Smoke and gas from the burning of used car batteries in the sky over Houston, Texas, July 72 th. (Marc St. Gil / NARA)



15. Day in the northern part of Birmingham, Alabama, became at night, as it was the most polluted part of the city. (LeRoy Woodson / NARA)



16. Signs along the highway in Las Vegas in May '72. (Charles O'Rear / NARA)



17. The train passes by the pond 2 hectares which commercial firms used as a dumping ground, near Ogden, Utah, April 74th. Poisonous water, oil, waste, dead animals, old cars and other debris - it was removed under the direction of EPA. On the territory drained and neutralized with about 4,543,482 liters of liquid. (Bruce McAllister / NARA)



18. Chicago boys in the area of ​​poor white southerners in August 74th. (Danny Lyon / NARA)



19. Underground Coal Company «Virginia-Pocahontas» near Richlandsa, Virginia, April 74th. This tunnel is located at a depth of 381 meters and 2 kilometers away from the elevator shaft through which the miners commute. (Jack Corn / NARA)



20. One of several residential high-rise buildings, the construction of which was stopped to keep the peninsula Breezy Point in Queens, New York. (Arthur Tress / NARA)



21. Crowded roads Hollywood in May '72. (Gene Daniels / NARA)



22. The gas station is closed due to a lack of gasoline in Portland, Oregon, and June 73rd. (David Falconer / NARA)



23. Racing on the dunes in the park near Florence, Oregon, September 72 th year. (Gene Daniels / NARA)



24. View of the street 6th Avenue West in Denver, Colorado, April 72 th. (Bruce McAllister / NARA)



25. Coal Company "Peabody" in the northeastern part of Arizona in May '72. (Lyntha Scott Eiler / NARA)



26. Abandoned car in the Jamaica Bay New York in June 73rd. (Arthur Tress / NARA)



27. Fish with strong curvature of the spine - the result of the presence of mercury in water. (Donald Emmerich / NARA)



28. The experimental wind tunnel created by the State University of Colorado, in June 1972. In this model of Houston is smoking, which allows scientists to study the density and direction of smog. (Bill Gillette / NARA)



29. Apparatus for testing linear induction motors in the process on the territory of the center near Pueblo, Colorado, March 73rd. This device is designed to operate at speeds up to 400 km / h using electromagnetic forces for noiseless translational motions. (Bruce McAllister / NARA)



30. Mount Rainier and industrial embankment Tacoma in Washington State in April 73rd. (Doug Wilson / NARA)



31. Young couple smokes cannabis in Cedar Woods, near Leakey, Texas, in May 73rd. (Photo taken with permission) (Marc St. Gil / NARA)

32. Cars parked on a commercial during a strike by bus drivers in Washington in May 74th. 250 thousand people had to find other means of transportation. Incredible jams formed when drivers understand that cars in the city far more than parking. (Jim Pickerell / NARA)



33. Manhattan Bridge over Brooklyn in New York in June 74th. (Danny Lyon / NARA)



34. Illegal dump in New Jersey overlooking Manhattan across the Hudson River in March '73. (Gary Miller / NARA)



35. The sidewalk in the Bronx has become a playground for those boys in April 1973. (Dan McCoy / NARA)



36. In this house, smashing windows and doors that automatically brings it into the category of "abandoned." Here in October 1973, was operating on a coal mining company. (Erik Calonius / NARA)



37. The dead duck in the pond with toxic water and oil in April 74th. Any unwary animals in the lake, was not destined to survive. (Bruce McAllister / NARA)



38. Pulp Mill «Crown Zellerbach» dispose of waste in a pond, formerly used to store logs, June 73rd. (Doug Wilson / NARA)



39. Abandoned slides - a sign of an abandoned recreational facilities at Coney Island in May 73rd. (Arthur Tress / NARA)



40. Children at the pool in Brooklyn in New York to celebrate the 4th of July. (Danny Lyon / NARA)



41. Dust over the city of Phoenix in the state Arihona in 1972. In this area there was no rain 153 days. (Cornelius M. Keyes / NARA)



42. A couple of the waves of the Gulf in Texas in May 72nd. (Blair Pittman / NARA)

43. The City of Seattle and freeway 5 Elliott Bay right in June 73rd. (Doug Wilson / NARA)



44. Aerial view of the old cars along the riverbank Kuyyahoga to prevent erosion in Ohio in September '75. At this point, the river passes through private land. River and Valley are part of the national reserve - 32-kilometer strip of territory between well developed counties of Cleveland and Akron. (Frank J. Aleksandrowicz / NARA)



45. One of the daughters Jerry Rainey - miner, who had gone on strike against the company «Brookside» Brookside in Kentucky, in 1974. It stands on the back porch of the house, which relieves the company Rainey. Note rear house. Family threatened with eviction during the prolonged strike, even though it is contrary to local laws. (Jack Corn / NARA)



46. ​​The plane comes in to land in Boston in May 1973. (Michael Philip Manheim / NARA)