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April 1942. “Mr. Oliver Coleman, drummer, looking over some music scores in the study of his apartment on Indiana Avenue. Chicago, Illinois.” Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Foreign Information Service of the U.S. Office of Coordinator of Information. View full size.
July 1941. “Stockyard workers during lunch hour. Chicago, Illinois.” Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
At the request of his family, Great Depression-era gangster John Dillinger will be exhumed from the Indianapolis grave where he was buried in 1934 after being shot down by FBI agents outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago. There’s been no official explanation for the request…
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The dimple-maker (1930s)
4/9/1938- Chicago, IL: A young woman demonstrates a ‘dimple’ machine at the Inventor’s Congress in Chicago.
April 1941. “Children playing under the elevated on the southside of Chicago.” Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the FSA. View full size.
April 1941. “Booth in Negro tavern on southside of Chicago.” Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
was hoping to make out the titles on the jukebox, but not quite enough resolution…
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