EVB2940853: Dump in New Jersey with a view of the back of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. This landfill was developed into Liberty State Park which opened June 14 1976. Ronald Reagan used the Park as a patriotic backdrop to kickoff his 1980 presidential campaign. c. 1973-75 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2940900: BAD DREAMS a 1909 cartoon shows a sleeping wealthy 'Protected Monopolist' and an turkey labeled 'Income Tax' that has risen from the remains of a Thanksgiving Day dinner labeled 'High Tariff Plunder.' Prior to the Federal Income tax of 1913 Tariffs which protected US business from foreign competition were the major source of Federal revenues / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936196: Power station towers and cables at the Hoover Dam, Arizona and Nevada was the world's largest electric-power generating station when it was completed in 1936. It provided energy to the American southwest but cut river flow to the Colorado River Delta in Mexico. 1941 photo / Bridgeman Images