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Extraordinary Pictures of the Chicago Race Riots of 1919

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 began on a hot July day and thought to be the worst of around 25 riots during the so-called 'Red Summer'. ...

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The Greatest Show on Earth! Kodachrome Photos of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

CW Cushman loved travelling and most years would take photographs of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the so-called Greatest Show on Earth. ...

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Henry Darger’s Blengiglomenean Serpents And Vivian Girls

"Where there was any wall space, and tacked around every door frame, were pictures of little girls that had been cut out of magazines, newspapers and coloring books" ...

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Vivian Maier in Color: The Ektachrome Slides

"She didn’t have to worry about either the orthodoxy or the approval of her peers” ...

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Fascinating Photos of Chicago’s Tri-Taylor Neighborhood from 1971

"He told me many times that he got most of the pictures because he managed to talk a local gang leader into walking him around" ...

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Get Down! Chicago Nightclubs In The 1970s

Michael Abramson documents nightclubs on Chicago's South Side ...

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Lee Godie Selfies: Portraits of Chicago’s Great Street Artist

"Now, Therefore, I, Richard M. Daley, Mayor of the City of Chicago, do hereby proclaim September 6-October 8, 1991 to be Lee Godie Exhibition Month in Chicago and urge all citizens to pay homage to a gifted artist" ...

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Riding Locomotives With Jack Delano, Marion Wolcott And Andreas Feininger In Color (1939)

"My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going" — Edna St. Vincent Millay ...

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Chicago’s South Side April 1941: Life In ‘The Black Belt’

In April 1941, Russell Lee and Edwin Rosskam arrived in Chicago, Illinois. Employed as photographers on ...

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Twenty Wonderful Vivian Maier Self-Portraits

Well, I suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for ...

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Beautiful Portraits of The Fabulous Ziegfeld Girls

Hazel Forbes (1928). A truth is often only what people want to believe. The ...

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People Watching In Chicago And New York City (1977-1980)

"People want to be recognised, people want to be seen" - Charles H. Traub ...

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