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Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus A view of downtown Birmingham through the window of the Cherokee Bend 50 bus to Mountain Brook. Birmingham, Alabama, 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus The view through the bus window on the first leg of Elnora Shearer's bus ride to work. 70 year old Elnora works as a domestic help in the affluent Mountain Brook neighbourhood of Birmingham. Birmin (...)
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Elnora Shearer (70, right) talks to a fellow passenger on the Cherokee Bend 50 bus from downtown Birmingham to Mountain Brook. Elnora says: 'Its kind of like there has been a shrinkage. Over the pa (...)
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Ruby O. Fox (81) walks up the long driveway to the house where she works as a domestic help after riding the Cherokee Bend 50 bus from downtown Birmingham to Mountain Brook. "It's been so long, I g (...)
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus A view of downtown Birmingham through the window of the Cherokee Bend 50 bus en route to Mountain Brook.

USA. Birmingham, Alabama. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Elnora Shearer (70) walks down the steps of her home in Birmingham, Alabama. She works as a domestic help in the affluent Mountain Brook neighbourhood of Birmingham. 'Its kind of like there has b (...)
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus An expensive home in the Mountain Brook neighbourhood of Birmingham, viewed across the garden hedge from the route of the Cherokee Bend 50 bus.

Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Elnora Shearer (70) stands by the side of the road near her home in Birmingham, Alabama. She works as a domestic help in the affluent Mountain Brook neighbourhood of Birmingham. 'Its kind of like (...)
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus A woman gets off the bus along the Cherokee Bend 50 bus route. Mountain Brook, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus The view through the bus window on the first leg of Elnora Shearer's bus ride to work. 70 year old Elnora works as a domestic help in the affluent Mountain Brook neighbourhood of Birmingham, Alabam (...)
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus A view of a bus stop sign along the route of the Cherokee Bend 50 bus in Birmingham, Alabama.

2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Ruby O. Fox (81) riding on the Cherokee Bend 50 bus.

'It's been so long, I got too old now. We have been coming over this mountain a long time. Like half our life.' Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Mildred Bryant (73) enters the house where she works as a domestic help through the back entrance after riding the Cherokee Bend 50 bus from downtown Birmingham to Mountain Brook. Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Women board the Cherokee Bend 50 bus at Central Station in downtown Birmingham, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Ellamae Carlisle (81) and Ive Gresham (66) walk to their respective jobs after getting off the Cherokee Bend 50 bus in Mountain Brook, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus A bus stop along the route of the Cherokee Bend 50 bus in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Women wait for the Cherokee Bend 50 bus which will take them to Mountain Brook at Central Station in downtown Birmingham. Alabama, USA, 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Ellamae Carlisle (81) walks to work after getting off the Cherokee Bend 50 bus in Mountain Brook where she works as a domestic help. 'I started working when I was 9 years old. My aunt would carry m (...)
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus The arm and hand of a passenger on the Cherokee Bend 50 bus in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake Passengers on the Cherokee Bend 50 bus. Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Mildred Bryant (73) and Ester Williams (61) on the Cherokee Bend 50 bus at Central Station in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus A woman talks on the phone aboard the Cherokee Bend 50 bus. Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Ester Williams, 61, waits for the Cherokee Bend 50 Maids bus to Mountain Brook at Central Station. Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos