View of 99th Street and Colvin Boulevard with a handmade sign reading "DANGER CONTAINS DIOXIN" at the fenced entrance gate to the Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill site, Niagara Falls, New York, December 12, 1978

Hazard signs

Fences

Gates

Dioxins

Hazardous waste sites

Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)

A chain-link fence surrounding the Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill site has a poster hanging from it with a diamond-shaped yellow road sign displaying a skull and crossbones with the words “DANGER” and “CONTAINS DIOXIN.” Snow is visible on the ground behind the fence; photographed by Penelope D. Ploughman.

Ploughman, Penelope, 1955-

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Libraries

1978-12-12

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Love Canal Images. LIB-003

Penelope D. Ploughman Love Canal Collection. MS-0100