View of 10002 Colvin Boulevard where helpers assist Love Canal activist homeowner Marie Posniak and her family to evacuate their home in the Love Canal neighborhood, Niagara Falls, New York, July 3, 1980
Title
View of 10002 Colvin Boulevard where helpers assist Love Canal activist homeowner Marie Posniak and her family to evacuate their home in the Love Canal neighborhood, Niagara Falls, New York, July 3, 1980
Subject
Posniak, Marie
Posniak, Al
Community activists
Evacuation of civilians
Abandoned houses
Housing and health
Hazardous waste sites
Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)
Description
A man wearing a plaid shirt and baseball cap is carrying a cardboard box down the steps of the home of Marie Posniak at 10002 Colvin Boulevard in the Love Canal neighborhood, Niagara Falls, New York. Two others are visible standing inside the doorway—a man in a white T-shirt and another partially obscured by a bush. The house has light-colored siding and the door frame is painted dark with a bush positioned in the foreground; photographed by Penelope D. Ploughman.
Creator
Ploughman, Penelope, 1955-
Source
State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives
Publisher
State University of New York at Buffalo. University Libraries
Date
1980-07-03
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Format
image/jpeg
Type
Image
Identifier
MS100.456
Date Created
2009-01-28
Is Part Of
Love Canal Images. LIB-003
Penelope D. Ploughman Love Canal Collection. MS-0100
Is Referenced By
Collection
Citation
Ploughman, Penelope, 1955-, “View of 10002 Colvin Boulevard where helpers assist Love Canal activist homeowner Marie Posniak and her family to evacuate their home in the Love Canal neighborhood, Niagara Falls, New York, July 3, 1980,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed December 21, 2025, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/16728.