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Light blue front cover of a staple-bound booklet titled "My Travel Book" featuring an architectural drawing of a school building for the Division of Special Education Travel Training program.

Travel Planning1

Cream-colored report cover titled "Construction of Portable Intersection for the Street Crossing Training of Mentally Handicapped Students" with an isometric diagram of a mock indoor street corner.

Travel Planning2

A travel trainer stands with his hand on a young student's shoulder as the student speaks to a token booth clerk at the Bay Parkway subway station.

Communication Help1

A female MTA worker stands inside a city bus and speaks with seated passengers while handing out informational pamphlets.

Communication Help2

A young man with Down syndrome holds up an open identification wallet to show a transit worker on a city street.

Communication Help3

An official speaks at an MTA New York City Transit podium inside a subway station alongside a sign language interpreter and wheelchair users.

Key Stations1

A bearded man in a wheelchair rides a mechanical wheelchair lift on the side of an MTA bus on a city street.

Low Floor Bus1

Disability activist Denise McQuade in a wheelchair using a mechanical bus lift to board or exit a bus.

Low Floor Bus2

Exterior view of a "New Flyer Low Floor" test bus parked at a curb with its front-door access ramp deployed onto the sidewalk.

Low Floor Bus3

Two people walk side by side along an asphalt roadway next to a graffiti-covered corrugated metal fence, with one person resting a guiding arm on the other's shoulder.

Safety1

A six-photo color collage showing disability activist Anne Emerman protesting in front of an MTA bus in 1981 and later boarding an accessible bus lift.

Anne Collage

Pamphlet titled "The Guide To Riding Wheelchair Accessible Buses In New York City" alongside a diagram of a bus lift key and instructions on obtaining one.

Lift Key

Blue-and-white poster reading "Ride A Bus Today, Oct. 14" featuring a wheelchair symbol whose wheel is a New York City transit token.

Ride A Bus Day1

A man in a suit and tie seated in a wheelchair inside a city bus next to other passengers during Ride A Bus Day.

Ride A Bus Day2

A large group of bus operators holding award certificates and three wheelchair users pose together inside New York City Hall.

Bus Operator Awards1

A framed poster by the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association titled "The Key to Accessible Mass Transit in New York City" featuring a schematic subway map with 27 highlighted stations.

Transit Hubs

The front cover of a booklet titled "New Jersey Handicapped Parking Laws" featuring an illustration of a reserved parking sign over a teal silhouette of New Jersey.

Parking Nj

Cover and inside map page of a 1990 EPVA pamphlet titled "Wheelchair Accessible New York City Subway Stations."

Key Stations2

A large, deep rectangular pothole sits directly adjacent to a painted white pedestrian crosswalk, marked only by an orange traffic cone and a plastic trash can.

Safety2

A travel trainer walks just behind a young man with Down syndrome as the student steps off a sidewalk curb next to a large puddle at a street crosswalk.

Safety3

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