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11-24-2011, 03:04 PM
46 Photos
More than 100 photographers were hired not only to document specific environmental issues, but to capture images of everyday life, showing how we interacted with the environment and capturing the way parts of America looked at that moment in history. By 1974, more than 80,000 photographs had been produced.
The National Archives has made 15,000 of these images available, and I've spent much of the past week combing through those to bring you these 46 glimpses of America in the early 1970s, with an eye toward our then-ailing environment.
The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...-1970s/100190/
Thank you Nixon, Ford, and Carter (Those before you bear some blame also).
More than 100 photographers were hired not only to document specific environmental issues, but to capture images of everyday life, showing how we interacted with the environment and capturing the way parts of America looked at that moment in history. By 1974, more than 80,000 photographs had been produced.
The National Archives has made 15,000 of these images available, and I've spent much of the past week combing through those to bring you these 46 glimpses of America in the early 1970s, with an eye toward our then-ailing environment.
The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...-1970s/100190/
Thank you Nixon, Ford, and Carter (Those before you bear some blame also).