Stephen and Betsy Myers collection of citizens' resistance to the placement of a low level radioactive dump site
- Title:
- Stephen and Betsy Myers collection of citizens' resistance to the placement of a low level radioactive dump site
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Landscape and the Environment
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Creation Date:
- 1989-2000
- ID Number:
- RMM065036_b08_f01_003
- Collection Number:
- 6503
- File Name:
- RMM065036_b08_f01_003.jpg
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- chromogenic color prints
- Subject:
- Landscape photography
Environmental degradation
Environmental protection -- Citizen participation
Alleghany Count, New York - Measurement:
- 10.2 x 15.25 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Horizontal view of a crowd of people outdoors with signs protesting a dump, trees and fields in the distance. The people have organized themselves into a few groups mostly facing each other across a clearing, everyone is dressed for cold weather in coats and hats of various colors, and the crowd contains both adults and children. Visible signs read "Please no dump" and "No death dump."
- Notes:
- Set of chromogenic color prints of the protest of a radioactive waste disposal site in New York State.
- Cite As:
- Stephen and Betsy Myers Archive, #6503. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Stephen and Betsy Myers collection of citizens resistance to the placement of a low level radioactive dump site
- Box:
- 8
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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