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Clearing a Path with a Snowblower
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Winter scene with teenage boy snow blowing the driveway of a house. His letter jacket has "64" on the sleeve. He is also wearing a stocking cap with pom-pom, gloves and glasses. In the background is an alley with snowed-in garages, with trash cans and fences on the left, power poles on the right. A large building is in the far distance. Caption that ran with the photograph in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Michael Ridbert, 16, of 3808 N. 54th blvd., used a snow blower to clear a path to his family's garage."
January 12, 1963
Koshollek, George P., Jr.
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