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Flushing Tar Dye
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A man is using a hose to wash a street. Behind him, a man is driving by in a car. A sign for Doc's Coin Mart is on the building behind the car. Caption reads: "A worker used a water hose to flush red coal tar dye from a city street Thursday."
July 29, 1983
Sieu, Benny
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