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On election night Reagan supporters were running in high gear. This supporter waved a newspaper declaring the election results an earthquake. This supporter was just one of several hundred waiting to hear Reagan accept his victory at the Century…

A Mondale supporter following the candidate's appearance in Philadelphia. Mondale was fresh off his good showing in his first debate with President Reagan.

It took about an hour for Reagan's men and Mondale's men to determine the proper distance between the lecterns for the Kansas City debate.

President Ronald Reagan and Mrs. Reagan peer through the observation slit of the former German bunker on hilltop of Pointe du Hoc, the first target of the invasion 40 years ago, during their visit to the historic sites in Normandy.

Forced outside by the suffocating heat in the apartments, Solomon Jackson sits out on the front stoop of the building.

Despite living in an apartment where the walls and floors have large holes in them, and the ceiling plaster litters the floor, Solomon Jackson takes pride in the furnishings of his home.

Mamie Jackson breaks down while talking about the rats that run around in her apartment. She ties her garbage up on the wall to keep the rodents out of it.

This block of apartments on Church Street has been condemned. The living conditions are sub-standard.

Church Street is the main street of black Norfolk. The residents there are the poorest in the city. Forced to live in miserable, sub-standard conditions, the people live a hard life. Living on Church Street means growing up tough, and sometimes…

Clifford and Dawn Chester sleep in an abandoned house in Philadelphia where they had stashed a mattress and mound of carpet matting for a blanket. Both were unemployed and among 4000 new poor without homes, displaced by a bad economy in the…