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  1. Carelton E. Watkins

    1829 – 1916

    Posted in Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Yosemite.
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  2. Timothy O’Sullivan

    1840 – 1882

    Posted in 1861 - 65 American Civil War, Canyon de Chelly, El Morro, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Mohave, Navajo, Rail.
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  3. John C. H. Grabill

    Born: 1850

    Posted in Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad, Homestake Mining Company, Miniconjou, South Dakota, Wyoming.
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  4. Eduard Spelterini

    1852 – 1931

    Posted in Giza Necropolis, South Africa's gold mines, Switzerland.
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  5. Frances Benjamin Johnston

    1864 – 1952

    Websites
    Exhibit and links at Clio
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Collection

    Posted in Hampton University, Heads of State, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Tuskegee, Virginia.
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  6. Anders Beer Wilse

    1865 – 1949

    Posted in 1899 - 1902 Philippine–American War, Alaska, Fishing, Inuit, Klondike Gold Rush, Makah, Norway, Seattle, Shipping.
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  7. Carl Hohl

    Posted in German Cameroon, Oil, Telegraphy.
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  8. Asahel Curtis

    Born: 1874

    Posted in Fishing, Forestry + Lumber, Gold, Seattle, Washington.

    Rufus Ribble

    1890 – 1960

    Posted in Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, West Virginia.
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    Dmitri Kessel

    1902 – 1995

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, 1946 - 49 Greek Civil War, China, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling.

  11. Edwin Rosskam

    1903 – 1985

    Posted in Oil, Puerto Rico.
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  12. Russell Lee

    1903 – 1986

    Websites
    U Texas

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, CB&Q Railroad, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Texas, WWII Japanese American internment.
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  13. Todd Webb

    1905 – 2000

    Posted in France, Oil, Pacific Theater.
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  14. Milton Rogovin

    1909 – 2011

    Posted in Appalachia, Buffalo, Chile, Iroquois, México, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Storefront Churches.
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  15. Eliot Elisofon

    1911 – 1973

    Websites
    Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art

    Posted in Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Canary Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, Central African Republic, Coal, Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, New Jersey, Niger, Nigeria, North African Theater, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, soukous, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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  16. Sol Libsohn

    1914 – 2001

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, Circus + Fairs, Guatemala, NYC 1930s, Oil, Trucking.
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  17. W. Eugene Smith

    1918 – 1978

    Websites
    Memorial Fund

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Heads of State, Jazz, Medicine, Minamata, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Pittsburgh, Spain.
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  18. George Hunter

    Born: 1921

    Posted in Canada, Coal, Fishing, Hunting + Trapping, Inuit.
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  19. Paul Fusco

    Born: 1930

    Posted in 1986 Chernobyl, Kentucky, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling.
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    James Karales

    1930 – 2002

    Posted in 1959 - 75 Vietnam War, African-American Civil Rights Movement, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Ohio.

  21. Jim Blair

    Born: 1931

    Posted in Coal, Islam, South Africa.
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  22. William Gedney

    1932 – 1989

    Websites
    Duke University

    Posted in India, Kansas, Kentucky, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Music, NYC 1950s, NYC 1960s, NYC 1970s, San Fransisco.

  23. Emmet Gowin

    Born: 1941

    Posted in Czechoslovakia, ENVIRONMENT, Hanford Site, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Pennsylvania, Virginia.
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  24. Builder Levy

    Born: 1942

    Posted in African-American Civil Rights Movement, Appalachia, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling.

  25. Sebastião Salgado

    Born: 1944

    Posted in Botswana, Children, Drought, Ethiopia, Kamchatka, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Namibia, Polio, Refugees Immigrants Diaspora, Venezuela.
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  26. Gilles Peress

    Born: 1946

    Posted in 1979 Iranian revolution, Balkans, Coal, Northern Ireland, Rwanda.
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  27. Antonin Kratochvil

    Born: 1947

    Posted in 1986 Chernobyl, 2001 - present Afghanistan, Children, Diamond, Extinction, Rwanda.
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  28. 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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  29. Bruce Connew

    Born: 1949

    Posted in Coal, New Zealand, South Africa.

  30. Ken Light

    Born: 1950

    Posted in Appalachia, Coal, Migrant Labor, Prison.

  31. David T Hanson

    Posted in Coal, Montana.

  32. Edward Burtynsky

    Born: 1955

    Posted in 2010 Deepwater Horizon, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Oil, Pollution, Shipping.
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  33. Paul Shambroom

    Born: 1956

    Posted in Oil.
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  34. Alfredo Jaar

    Born: 1956

    Posted in Brazil, Gold.

  35. J Henry Fair

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

    Websites
    SKYTRUTH on Flickr

    Posted in 2010 Deepwater Horizon, Agriculture, Coal, Fishing, Oil Spill.
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  37. David Maisel

    Born: 1961

    Posted in Forestry + Lumber, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Owens Lake.

  38. Michael Light

    Born: 1963

    Posted in Arizona, Copper, Los Angeles, Wyoming.
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    Ryan Anson

    Posted in Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling.

  40. Yannis Kontos

    Born: 1971

    Posted in Albania, Diamond, México > U.S., Sierra Leone.
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  41. David Rochkind

    Born: 1980

    Posted in Gold, México, Peru, Pollution, South Africa, Venezuela.
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    Antrim Caskey

    Posted in Coal, West Virginia.

  43. Pat Sullivan

    Posted in Alumina, Mining waste, Point Comfort.
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  44. OrbView

    Born: 1997

    Posted in - WORLD REGIONS, Agriculture, Fishing, Oil.
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  45. EO-1

    Born: 2000

    Websites
    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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