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Subscribe to more TIME newsletters Subscribe to more TIME newsletters Weekly Top 10   Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Disturbing Photographs Show Pollution in the Great Lakes Before the Clean Water Act In 1968, LIFE magazine sent photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt to capture the damage that had been done to the nation's Great Lakes Brooklyn and the True History of Irish Immigrants in New York LIFE With Jane Fonda: Behind the Scenes on the Camp Classic, ‘Barbarella’ ‘The Luckiest Generation’: LIFE With Teenagers in 1950s America American Atrocity: Remembering My Lai Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Road Trip! Photos From US Route 30 in 1948 As summer approaches and the urge to hit the highways -- and the byways, and the back roads -- begins to take hold, LIFE offers a series of pictures from Nebraska and Wyoming made seven long decades ago. Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll, June 1969 Meet the Real Women Who Inspired A League of Their Own What Happened When Oregon Sent Its Most Troubled Mental-Health Patients Into the Woods The Surprisingly Wild and Crazy Summers of Young Soviets in the 1960s To unsubscribe You have received this e-mail because you are subscribed to this newsletter from TIME.com. Unsubscribe here. PRIVACY POLICY Please read our Privacy Policy, or copy and paste this link into your browser: http://www.time.com/privacy TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice. FOR FURTHER COMMUNICATION, PLEASE CONTACT: TIME Customer Service 3000 University Center Drive Tampa, FL 33612-6408 Please email life@time.com How To Advertise | Give the Gift of TIME | Update Email Connect with LIFE Become a Fan of LIFE Get LIFE Twitter Updates Sign up for TIME Newsletters Read TIME Mobile on your iPhone Get TIME Magazine iPad Edition Subscribe to RSS Feeds