Playground equipment at the 99th Street Elementary School with 97th Street residences and Griffon Manor apartments in background, August 1978

Penelope D. Ploughman Love Canal Collection

Griffon Manor (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)

Playgrounds

Schools

Abandoned buildings

Abandoned houses

A grassy playground contains red and blue metal swing frames and a vertical metal climbing structure. No swings are attached. In the background, a row of single-family houses, painted in pastel colors such as yellow and light blue, have their windows and doors boarded up. Utility poles and overhead wires run across the scene, and an orange plastic mesh fence separates the playground from the homes. The area appears abandoned or unused.

Ploughman, Penelope, 1955-

State University of New York at Buffalo

University Archives

Aug. 1978

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