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American Environmental Photographs 1891-1936 at the Library of Congress

  1. Édouard Baldus

    1813 – 1889

    Posted in Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée, Flood, France.
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  2. John Thomson

    1837 – 1921

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    Thomson's Illustrations of China and Its People at MIT Visualizing Cultures

    Posted in Angkor, Bangkok, China, London, Singapore, Storms, Sumatra, Taiwan.
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  3. Jacob Riis

    1849 – 1914

    Posted in Housing, NYC 1800s, Water.

  4. Frederick Eugene Ives

    1856 – 1937

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    Article by Anthony Brooks

    Posted in 1906 Earthquake in San Francisco.
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  5. George Lawrence

    1868 – 1938

    Posted in Aerial, Chicago, Earthquakes, San Fransisco.
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  6. Arnold Genthe

    1869 – 1942

    Posted in China > North America, Earthquakes, Fauxtography, Heads of State, San Fransisco.
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  7. Lewis Hine

    1874 – 1940

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Child Labor, Drought, NYC 1930s, Pittsburgh, Steel.
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    Charles Martin

    Posted in Marine, Underwater.
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  9. Frederick Sommer

    1905 – 1999

    Posted in ENVIRONMENT.

  10. Carl Mydans

    1907 – 2004

    Websites
    Digital Journalist

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, 1939 - 45 WWII, Earthquakes, Japan, Philippines.
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  11. W. Eugene Smith

    1918 – 1978

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    Memorial Fund

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Heads of State, Jazz, Medicine, Minamata, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Pittsburgh, Spain.
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  12. Richard Nickel

    1928 – 1972

    Websites
    Richard Nickel Committee archive at the Art Institute of Chicago's Ryerson & Burnham Libraries

    Posted in Architecture, Chicago.

  13. Paul Fusco

    Born: 1930

    Posted in 1986 Chernobyl, Kentucky, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling.
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  14. Don McCullin

    Born: 1935

    Posted in 1959 - 75 Vietnam War, 1969 - 79 Cambodia, Bangladesh, Biafra, Cambodia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Libya, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia.
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  15. Robert Del Tredici

    Born: 1938

    Posted in 1979 Three Mile Island.
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  16. Galen Avery Rowell

    1940 – 2002

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    Mountain Light

    Posted in ENVIRONMENT.
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    Wally McNamee

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    U Texas

    Posted in 1959 - 75 Vietnam War, 1979 Three Mile Island, Heads of State, Vietnam War - aftermath, Washington DC.
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  18. Emmet Gowin

    Born: 1941

    Posted in Czechoslovakia, ENVIRONMENT, Hanford Site, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Pennsylvania, Virginia.
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  19. Terry Evans

    Born: 1944

    Posted in Chicago, Climate Change, Steel, Trees.
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  20. Sebastião Salgado

    Born: 1944

    Posted in Botswana, Children, Drought, Ethiopia, Kamchatka, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Namibia, Polio, Refugees Immigrants Diaspora, Venezuela.
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  21. Bill Curtsinger

    Born: 1946

    Posted in Nature.
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  22. David Doubilet

    Born: 1946

    Posted in Marine, Underwater.
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  23. Yann Arthus-Bertrand

    Born: 1946

    Posted in Nature.
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  24. David Burnett

    Born: 1946

    Posted in 1959 - 75 Vietnam War, 1979 Iranian revolution, Famine, Heads of State, Olympics.
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  25. Antonin Kratochvil

    Born: 1947

    Posted in 1986 Chernobyl, 2001 - present Afghanistan, Children, Diamond, Extinction, Rwanda.
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  26. James Nachtwey

    Born: 1948

    Posted in 2001 September 11 attacks, 2003 Iraq Invasion, 2004 Asian Tsunami, China, Coal, Congo, HIV, Indonesia, Northern Ireland, Sudan, Thailand, Tuberculosis, Water.
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  27. Stanley Greene

    Born: 1949

    Posted in 2005 Hurricane Katrina, Chechnya.
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  28. Gary Braasch

    Born: 1950

    Posted in Climate Change, Re-photography: Places.
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  29. Steve Raymer

    Posted in 1986 Chernobyl, Endangered animal trafficking, Vietnam.
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  30. Daniel Morel

    Born: 1951

    Posted in 2010 Haiti, Haiti.

  31. Dilip Mehta

    Born: 1952

    Posted in 1984 Bhopal, China, Soviet Union / Russia.
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  32. Larry Towell

    Born: 1953

    Posted in 1960 - 96 Guatemalan Civil War, 1980 - 92 El Salvador, 1981 - 90 Nicaragua, 1989 Exxon Valdez.
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  33. Tom Stoddart

    Born: 1953

    Posted in 1986 Chernobyl, 1991 - 95 Yugoslav Wars, HIV, Sex Industry, Sudan.
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  34. Barbara Bosworth

    Born: 1953

    Posted in Trees.

  35. Adi Roche

    Born: 1955

    Posted in 1986 Chernobyl.

  36. Edward Burtynsky

    Born: 1955

    Posted in 2010 Deepwater Horizon, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Oil, Pollution, Shipping.
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    Patrick Artinian

    Born: 1960

    Posted in 1991 - 95 Yugoslav Wars, Armenia, Earthquakes, Famine, Sudan.
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  38. Kevin Carter

    1960 – 1994

    Posted in Famine, South Africa, Sudan.
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  39. Gerry Ellis

    Posted in 2010 Deepwater Horizon.
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  40. J Henry Fair

    Posted in 2010 Deepwater Horizon, Appalachia, Coal, Factory Farms, Oil.
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  41. John Amos

    Websites
    SKYTRUTH on Flickr

    Posted in 2010 Deepwater Horizon, Agriculture, Coal, Fishing, Oil Spill.
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  42. Ed Kashi

    Posted in Niger Delta Oil Spills, Nigeria.
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  43. Robert Knoth

    Posted in Nuclear.

    Paula Bronstein

    Posted in 2003 Iraq Invasion, 2004 Asian Tsunami, Indonesia, Rwanda, Thailand.

  45. Doug Menuez

    Posted in Ethiopia, Famine, HIV, México, Uganda.

  46. Lu Guang

    Born: 1961

    Posted in China, HIV, Pollution.

  47. Yunghi Kim

    Born: 1963

    Posted in Famine, Somalia.
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  48. Chris Jordan

    Posted in Landfills + Garbage.

  49. Michael Robinson Chavez

    Posted in 2003 Iraq Invasion, 2008 Russia–Georgia War, 2010 Earthquake in Chile, Colorado River, Los Angeles, Montana, Peru.
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  50. Balazs Gardi

    Posted in 2001 - present Afghanistan, Water.

  51. Michael Forster Rothbart

    Posted in 1986 Chernobyl.

  52. Misty Keasler

    Born: 1978

    Posted in China, Circus + Fairs, Guatemala, Japan, Landfills + Garbage, Orphans.

  53. Daniel Pepper

    Born: 1980

    Posted in Congo, India, Water.

  54. David Rochkind

    Born: 1980

    Posted in Gold, México, Peru, Pollution, South Africa, Venezuela.
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  55. Jane Hahn

    Posted in Niger Delta Oil Spills, Nigeria.

  56. Pat Sullivan

    Posted in Alumina, Mining waste, Point Comfort.
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    Tian Jingyue

    Posted in 2010 Oil spill in Dalian China.
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  58. Peter van Agtmael

    Born: 1981

    Posted in 2004 Asian Tsunami, China, South Africa, Three Gorges Dam, Uganda.
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    Jeffrey Yoo Warren

    Posted in 2010 Deepwater Horizon.
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  60. EO-1

    Born: 2000

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    New Millennium program at Goddard Flight Space Center
    Toxic Sludge in Hungary photos by EO-1 at The Earth Observatory

    Posted in - WORLD REGIONS, 2010 alumina sludge spill in Hungary, Alumina.
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  61. Monirobo

    Posted in 2011 Fukushima nuclear accidents.
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  62. MQ-9 Reaper

    Born: 2001

    Websites
    2009 Civilian UAV article at Popular Mechanics

    Posted in 2001 - present Afghanistan, Agriculture, Arizona, Forest Fire, México > U.S., Refugees Immigrants Diaspora, Smuggling.
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  63. Global Hawk

    Posted in 2001 - present Afghanistan, 2003 Iraq Invasion, 2011 Fukushima nuclear accidents.
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