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Description
School buses are specially designed transportation for getting students safely to and from school each day. This image shows a Cobb County school bus traveling on a city street. Cobb County is in the Atlanta, Georgia, metro area and had a population of 607,751 in 2010.
Source-Dependent Questions
- Was this image taken in a rural area or an urban area? Use evidence from the image to support your answer.
- How does this kind of transportation help these workers to do their job?
- Compare this photo with the horse-drawn bus, the buses in Tipton, Iowa, the wooden bus in Renwick and the bus in Pella, Iowa. How is this image the same, and how is it different?
Citation Information
deNeergaard, Margaret M., "Bus with Flag On It," 14 September 2001. Courtesy of Library of Congress