Still Pictures Aerial Photography in Record Group 412: Records of the Environmental Protection Agency
Digital Photographs Relating to the Environment, ca. 1996 - ca. 2003 (412-EPD)
This series consists of digital photographs that relate to environmental subjects, including agriculture, air pollution, recycling, water treatment, water pollution, power plants, waste management, and wildlife. In addition, this series features landscapes and cityscapes. Photographs in this series include views of Yellowstone National Park; Saguaro National Park; the Hoover Dam; Mount St. Helens; the Chesapeake Bay; the Great Lakes; Washington, DC; Smith Field Island, Maryland; Crisfield, Maryland; Tangier Island, Virginia; and aerial views of Ocean City, Maryland. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christine Todd Whitman is also featured at a Student Environmental Development Program (SEPD) event along the Anacostia River in Washington, DC. The finding aid for the series is available in the Still Pictures Research Room. This series is partially digitized.
DOCUMERICA: The Environmental Protection Agency's Program to Photographically Document Subjects of Environmental Concern, 1972 - 1977 (412-DA)
Documerica was a program sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency to photographically document subjects of environmental concern in America during the 1970s. The images were made by approximately 70 well-known photographers contracted by the EPA for this project. Photographers included Danny Lyon, Gene Daniels, Marc St. Gill, Bill Strode, Charles O'Rear, Jack Corn, Tomas Sennett, Yoichi Okamote, and Ken Hayman. Some of the subjects are beach and mountain scenes; urban areas including junk yards, streets, buildings 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, and Yugoslavia and Austria. This series consists of 35mm color slides and black and white negatives and prints. Exhibits of images from this collection were DOC I which was sponsored by the Corcoran Art Gallery, and SITES, "Our Only World" exhibit sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service. These images appear together on the microfiche. Photographs of DOC I and SITES exhibits were reproduced in black and white (412-DAD and 412-DAS). All of the color slides were reproduced on microfiche (412-DAC) for easy viewing. There are black and white copy negatives for some of the images (412-DAB). See temporary card for 412-DAZ which continues in numerical sequence from DA. The finding aid for the series is available in the Still Pictures Research Room. This series is fully digitized.
Posters Advertising the "ENERGY STAR" Program and Energy Efficient Products , 1999 - 2009 (412-ESP)
This series consists of ENERGY STAR program posters. An example of a poster is "Appliances Designed for Efficiency", which describes the cost-effectiveness of four appliances (412-ESP-4). Another example is a poster produced by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, which describes the benefits of fluorescent bulbs (412-ESP-2). Another poster in this series features an aerial photograph of Denver, Colorado to illustrate how energy efficient buildings help protect the environment (412-ESP-1). Other posters in this series were issued in commemoration of Earth Day 2000 and 2001 (412-ESP-5 and 412-ESP-6). The finding aid for the series is available in the Still Pictures Research Room.