Color Slides Taken for the DOCUMERICA Program, 10/1973 - 12/1975

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Color Slides Taken for the DOCUMERICA Program, 10/1973 - 12/1975

10/1973 - 12/1975

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This series consists of 35 mm color slides which were taken for the DOCUMERICA program. DOCUMERICA was a program sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to photographically document environmental issues during the 1970's. The project's mission "was three-fold: to photograph America's environmental problems as defined by the EPA; to document America's natural and man-made beauty; and the most important, to document the human condition." For additional information about DOCUMERICA, see Record Group 412, Series DA ("DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern"). The images in this series were made by five well-known photographers contracted by the EPA for the DOCUMERICA program. The photographers were Nancy Abrams, Lowell Georgia, Flip Schulke, Michael D. Steere, and Carl Weese. Although all of the color slides (and their captions) in this series were to have been reproduced on microfiche (see Record Group 412, Series DA) and included in the DOCUMERICA Image System, only the captions (fiche number 267) for the first 60 images were completed before the DOCUMERICA project was terminated, and the records were transferred to the National Archives. As with the images in Record Group 412, DA, each slide was assigned an Assignment--Roll--Frame identification number; a unique identification number, a microfiche card number, and a position coordinate for the assigned fiche. These identifications are referenced in the accompanying caption lists. Some of the subjects pictured in this series are rural scenes, including sugar beet and dairy farming near New Ulm, Minnesota; the Snake River at Twin Falls, American Falls, Shiller and Idaho Falls, Idaho; islands in Lake Michigan (Garden Island, Squaw Island, Whiskey Island, Trout Island, Gull Island, Hog Island, Pismire Island, Hat Island, Shoe Island, Crane Island, Waugoshance Island, Mackinac Island, Little Summer Island, Big Summer Island, Poverty Island, St. Martin Island, Rock Island, Washington Island); and oil refineries (BP [British Petroleum] and Sun Oil Company) and town life in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania.

5 linear inches

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DOCUMERICA

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DOCUMERICA, started in 1971 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to record that agency’s successes and failures in battling environmental degradation. Gifford Dean Hampshire was the project's director....

Schulke, Flip, 1930-2008

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Flip Schulke (b. Graeme Phelps Schulke, June 24, 1930, Cornish, N.H.-d. May 15, 2008, West Palm Beach, Fla.), was one of America’s premier photojournalists for more than 40 years. A native of New Ulm, Minnesota and a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Schulke moved to Miami in the 1950s, where he developed specialties in underwater photography, auto racing, the space program and the history of the Berlin Wall. Through his close friendship with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Schulke became ...

Abrams, Nancy, 1953-

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Nancy Abrams, writer, editor and photographer, was born September 2, 1953, in St. Louis, Missouri. She contributed photographs to the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project in the early 1970s. From the description of Abrams, Nancy, 1953- (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10615300 ...