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Wayne Miller
USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Afternoon game at table 2.
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A woman outside her shack on a cold winter day. It was built of cardboard and plywood on Lake Michigan's beach. Chicago, USA. 1948.
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Four men outside a beauty shop. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1948.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Sweeping the sidewalk in the morning. The boy is delivering groceries.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Rabbits for sale.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Girl with newspaper fashion supplement.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Boy outside "Fish Market".
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Simple was a character that Langston Hughes used in his news column. Upon seeing the man in this photograph, Hughes said: "That's him." Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1947.
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Merchants on South Halsted Street. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1946.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Strike captain during protest by the packing house workers, March 1948.
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Repairing the furnace chimney. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1947.
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Mourners at funeral. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1947.
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Duke Ellington rehearsing on stage at the Savoy. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1948.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Three teenagers in kitchenette apartment.
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Watching a high school football game. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1946.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Father and son at Lake Michigan.
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A One-room kitchenette. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1947.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Anti-lynching demonstration.
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Eddie Nichols Gymnasium at 50th and State was a popular gym for young boxers. Joe Louis worked out there. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1946.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Gospel Service.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. A deserted mother wondering what she can do with a newborn baby she cannot support.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. An alley between overcrowded tenements, with garbage thrown over the railings of the back porches. Most of the area's tenants were transient.
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Keeping warm in a pool hall. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1948.
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Mother and son. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1947.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. High school football players.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. After school.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Kangaroo court for juveniles at the Wabash Avenue police station presided over by Sylvester "Two Gun Pete" Washington.
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A spiritualist. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1946.
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A makeshift pushcart. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1947.
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The painter Eldzier Cortor in his basement-apartment. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1947.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Father and son.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Workers demolishing building.
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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Protest by packing house workers.
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A girl reading Ebony magazine. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1947.
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American singer Ella Fitzgerald performing. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1948.
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Workers shovel scrap metal at the International Harvester tractor works, making a chalk mark for each box emptied. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1947.
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