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Image description: Anxious kids begin the chase in a greased pig contest at a picnic held near Chattanooga, Tennessee in August 1974.
Image from the National Archives’ collection of Documerica Project photos. The project hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, Environmental Protection Agency activities, and everyday life in the 1970s.

Image description: Anxious kids begin the chase in a greased pig contest at a picnic held near Chattanooga, Tennessee in August 1974.

Image from the National Archives’ collection of Documerica Project photos. The project hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, Environmental Protection Agency activities, and everyday life in the 1970s.

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