MSN - Electric cars recall the environment of 1970s America
In this Oct. 1973 photo, participants check out the Exide Battery Sundancer, an early experimental electric car at the First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Frank Lodge / U.S. National Archives via AP
The Documerica project was modeled on the renowned photography program run by the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Documerica documents a broad slice of life from the 1970s, from belching smokestacks, to a "No gas today" sign dating to the 1973 gasoline crisis, to rugged coal country scenes, to senior citizens in a water exercise class in Florida.
The U.S. National Archives digitized more than 15,000 photographs from the Documerica collection.
As MSN reported, the EPA has embarked on a yearlong campaign to collect photographs from across the United States and around the world for a new project. The public have been invited to upload their pictures to a Flickr page set up for the State of the Environment Photo Project.
How do you think the American environment has changed since the 1970s?
- MSN
