19. Margaret Bourke-White, Louisville Flood Victims, 1937. 1937 Ohio River flood at the intersection of Barret Avenue and Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky. Private citizens brought boats and canoes to support the rescue efforts.
21. Louisville Flood of 1937 70% of Louisville was underwater, leaving over 175,000 people homeless.
22. Margaret Bourke-White, Louisville Flood Victims, 1937. 1937 Ohio River flood at the intersection of Barret Avenue and Broadway in Louisville, Kentucky. Private citizens brought boats and canoes to support the rescue efforts.
33. Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, 1944. “ The National Parks are truly symbolic of America and our national life…The grandeurs and intimacies of Nature as presented here will, I hope, encourage the spectator to seek for himself the inexhaustible sources of beauty in the natural world.” -- Ansel Adams
34. Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, 1942. “ I have been concerned with conservation matters for years, but I find most conservation literature insufferably dull…Something has to be done to interest the average citizen. -- Ansel Adams
35. Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, 1947. It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. -- Ansel Adams
36. Pig’s Eye Landfill, St. Paul, Minnesota. Pig’s Eye Landfill, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1995.