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International Scout Truck

Date: 1978
Description: Color advertising photograph of an International Scout truck.
Book or Pamphlet

1978 International Scout SS II

Date: 1978
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1978 International Scout SS II pickup. Features color photograph of a man driving down a sand dune.
Photograph

Jimmy Carter

Date: 1978
Description: Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States (1977-1981), was born in Plains, Georgia on October 1, 1924. After serving as an officer in the Navy, he...
Photograph

Red Cloud Park

Date: 1978
Description: Native Americans keeping the music alive. George Whitewing, a Ho Chunk musician from Wittenberg, Wisconsin, plays his drum while a crowd looks on in Red Cl...
Photograph

International Power Washers Flyer

Date: 1978
Description: Advertising flyer for International Power Washers. The yellow poster has white lettering that reads: "Mud is Murder" above a black and white photograph. Th...
Print

International Harvester Advertising Proof

Date: 1978
Description: Advertising proof created by Foote, Cone & Belding for the International Harvester Company. Features a color illustration of a farmer driving an IH Series ...
Print

International Harvester Advertising Proof

Date: 1978
Description: Advertising proof created by Foote, Cone & Belding for the International Harvester Company. Features a color photograph of a farmer driving an Internationa...
Photograph

Alex Haley

Date: 1978
Description: Author Alex Haley autographing a copy of his best selling book, Roots, during a visit to Spottsylvania County, Virginia, where his ancestor Kunte Ki...
Photograph

Alex Haley and Kunte Kinte's Grave

Date: 1978
Description: Author Alex Haley and actor LeVar Burton visit the grave of Haley's ancestor, the slave Kunte Kinte, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. In the television ...
Manuscript

Renaissance Newsletter

Date: 1978
Description: Front and back of "Renaissance" newsletter. Features a greek-style drawing of a man on the front, and on the back a depiction of a naked man and woman wear...
Print

Peaceful

Date: 1978
Description: Holiday card with the word "PEACEFUL" embossed seven times on the front (not shown). On the inside, a photograph of a couple is glued in the center. Above ...
Print

Merry Christmas

Date: 1978
Description: Holiday card showing four African Americans, two men and two women, sliding down a hill on a sled. More snow-covered hills are visible in the background. T...
Photograph

Adkins and Shindo Families

Date: 1978
Description: Adkins and Shindo families posing in yukatas (the garment) at the Adkins home. From left to right back row: Shizuo Shindo, MD, Mrs. Shindo, Loraine Adkins,...
Photograph

Transporting Cranberries

Date: 1978
Description: Barges of cranberries being lifted from the marsh and loaded into the back of a truck for transport. Two men stand in a bog near more barges filled with cr...
Photograph

Franklin J. Schnaffner

Date: 1978
Description: Franklin J. Schnaffner, director of "The Boys from Brazil" (Fox, 1978). Schnaffner is looking through the viewfinder of a Panaflex camera.
Photograph

Franklin J. Schnaffner

Date: 1978
Description: Franklin J. Schnaffner, director of "The Boys from Brazil" (Fox, 1978) in a quarter-length portrait taken during production. He wears a dark cap.
Photograph

Title I PreSchoolers

Date: 1978
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with pre-schoolers and their teacher at Ellis School, a program supported in part by Title I federal funding. Throughou...
Photograph

Education Press Conference

Date: 1978
Description: Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin (center) holding a press conference about federal funding for education with students at Ellis School. A few journal...
Photograph

State Championship

Date: 1978
Description: "Lomira High School girl's basketball team celebrates winning the state championship."
Photograph

School Administrator

Date: 1978
Description: "Village and town officials are present when school administrator, John Phillips (at the podium), addresses the crowd. Coach Rick Bloohm is left of the pod...

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