Documentary photography of Black Chicago everyday life

CTL-E-1326 · Practice · other · 1941–1979

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Photographers — Black Chicagoans and visitors — building visual archives of ordinary South Side life: street scenes, stoops, taverns, churches, clubs.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-063; source research type(s): practice.

Sources

Maren Stange, Bronzeville (The New Press, 2003); reviewed via thefreelibrary.com
WAMC (May 25, 2013); all-about-photo.com (n.d.)
Hyperallergic, 'An Overlooked Photographer Who Documented Generations' (2025) (primary source)

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Hallway of a kitchenette apartment building, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Negro swinging his girl on roller skates. Savoy Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Shoeshine, 47th Street, Chicago's main Negro business street, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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