99th Street Elementary School athletic field with 97th Street residences in background, Love Canal neighborhood, Niagara Falls, NY, August 1978

Penelope D. Ploughman Love Canal Collection

Athletic fields

Abandoned houses

Dwellings

Caption: Ball field at Read Ave & 97th Streets.

A tilted and damaged chain-link backstop stands in an overgrown grassy field, likely part of a former baseball or softball area. A temporary construction or snow fence runs across the foreground at an angle. In the background, several single-story houses with boarded-up windows are visible, along with utility poles and power lines under a hazy sky. The scene appears deserted and neglected.

Ploughman, Penelope, 1955-

State University of New York at Buffalo

University Archives

Aug. 1978

0.907 x 1.353 inches

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Still Image

MS100.13

LIB-UA003

1/28/2009

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