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History: Documerica, Environmental Photography Document Program, 1972-1977, United States
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Some of the subjects photographed are urban cityscapes, everyday life in small towns, scenes of natural beauty including beachs and mountains, urban areas including junk yards, streets, buildings, and traffic control; Amtrak; air and water pollution; waterfronts; mining scenes; and people. Areas included are National Parks and Forests, Lake Tahoe, the Great Lakes, the Alaskan Pipeline, Hawaii, Washington, D.C. and cities throughout the United States. The project even wound up including some photographs of Canada, and even Yugoslavia and Austria
Digital scans of over 15,000 of the original 35mm color slides and black and white negatives and prints are available through the National Archives and Records Administration's Archival Research Catalog.
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