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A poster urging Detroit residents to "Help! Stop This Fire Waste." The poster features Miss Detroit pleading with the audience and a dragon destroying the city.

The Biggest Auto Show of All!

A poster announcing the 1960 Detroit Auto Show at Cobo Hall.

Kabangala & Brothers v. Kisalita- High Court of Uganda-Appeal

This is an appeal case to the High Court. Yoana Kabangala accused Benwa Kisalita and his wife Katalina Nanfuka for damages that occurred due to their breach of contract on their lease of three acres of land. Without substantial proof, the court ordered the bakery house's demolition of the appellant and dismissed the case with costs.

Gary Michael of Duosoft, a PLATO courseware development and computing company.

Photograph of co-founders Gary Michael (l) and Michael Barr (r) of Duosoft, an Urbana-Champaign based hardware and software start-up that developed and programmed PLATO courseware for Control Data Corporation from 1981-1985. Mostly paralyzed from youth due to polio, Gary Michael (left) was a handicapped PLATO programmer who used a mouth stick to code and interact through the PLATO system.

Duosoft

Photograph of staff at Duosoft, an Urbana-Champaign based hardware and software start-up that developed and programmed PLATO courseware for Control Data Corporation from 1981-1985. Seated at the far left is Duosoft owner and programmer Gary Michael.

CDC employee working with circuitry at Control Data's Northside Factory

Photograph of a CDC employee working with circuitry at Control Data's Northside Factory in 1973. Control Data built facilities in economically disadvantaged areas of Minneapolis and St. Paul that brought jobs to inner-city residents and favorable publicity to the company.

Women engineers from Control Data in front of computers at the Minnesota State Fair in 1969 under the sign "Program Your Own Future in the Computer Industry"

Photograph of women engineers from Control Data in front of computers at the Minnesota State Fair in 1969 under the sign "Program Your Own Future in the Computer Industry". From the source description: "Expanding rapidly, the company tapped Minnesota women for its programming workforce."