Double-decker bus Schneider Brillié P2 (left) and double-decker horse-drawn omnibus (center), Montmartre, Paris, 1907-1911.
Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the city’s bus system. Behind Parks is Nicholas C. Chriss, a UPI reporter covering the event.
Source: Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection
Public transportation in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1950s-1960s.
Alfred Eisenstaedt, Popular 17 year old senior Earl Reum writing poetry in a bus, Denver, Colorado, USA, 1948.
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Esther Bubley, An instructor of the Capitol Transit Company teaching a woman to operate a one-man streetcar, Washington, DC, June 1943.
Source: Library of Congress
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Esther Bubley, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Woman cleaner at the Greyhound garage, September 1943.
Source: Library of Congress
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Double-decker Car No. 1 pauses at the intersection of 5th and Market streets during its inaugural run. San Diego, California, September 1892.
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Photograph by Tony Linck. London, December 1946.
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