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Trainees at the San Bernardino Sheriffs Academy go through a 13 week course to become certified as cops. The course includes boot-camp like discipline as well as special classes such as 'Handling Death', in which they visit the morgue and watch an…

Police in San Jose, CA take to bicycles in order to better patrol city streets in high crime areas. In addition to maintaining regular patrol duties (such as writing parking tickets), the five man bicycle team is charged with keeping a close watch…

Police in San Jose, CA take to bicycles in order to better patrol city streets in high crime areas. In addition to maintaining regular patrol duties (such as writing parking tickets), the five man bicycle team is charged with keeping a close watch…

Hopalong Jim Hendricks, a paraplegic trick rider, takes a nap with his horse Carvin. Hendricks, a runaway from the law because of tax evasion, ends each of his performances with his nap.

A photo-stringer covering the presidents visit got the assignment to roam through the crowd for feature pictures. Still, he wanted to get some shots of President Carter and came equipped with a pair of stilts used by construction workers to hang…

A young mother holds her child above her.

Photograph of a woman with her child.

Pillars of the prairie, An Iowa father and son stand beside their harvest at day's end.

In front of the Fraser Paper Company's Edmundston, N.B. mill a log scaler inventories the raw material that will be pulped here in Canada and piped duty free across the St. John River to the paper plant in Madawaska, Maine.

Dewey Coffey takes a lunch break inside one of the vacant country churches he is painting.