10002 Colvin Boulevard, resident Marie Posniak evacuates her home with a sign: '4 Sale Buy 1, Get 1 Free', Love Canal neighborhood, Niagara Falls, NY, July 3, 1980

Penelope D. Ploughman Love Canal Collection

Posniak, Marie

Evacuation of civilians

Abandoned houses

Dwellings

Signs and signboards

A person is standing behind a chain-link gate with a hand-painted sign that reads “4 SALE BUY 1 GET 1 FREE.” The individual is wearing a white “LOVE CANAL – Another Product from HOOKER CHEMICAL” T-shirt and sunglasses. Behind them is a one-story house with beige siding and a truck parked in the driveway. A large patterned mattress is propped vertically on the truck bed, and shrubs partially obscure the gate. An antenna is visible on the roof.

Ploughman, Penelope, 1955-

State University of New York at Buffalo

University Archives

1980-07-03

0.913 x 1.34 inches

Image

Still Image

MS100.460

LIB-UA003

1/28/2009

Slides