Prints and photographs collection (Chicago History Museum)
Explore the Museum’s vast and diverse collection of prints and photographic materials. Dating from the late 18th century to the present, this material comprises the single largest source of pictorial information for the Chicago metropolitan area.
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Creator
Bullock, Peter
Haun, Declan, 1937-1994
Publisher
Chicago, Ill. : Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Historical Society
Date of Original
1957/1968
Subject
Civil rights
African Americans
Demonstrations
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
Suffragists
Campaigns
Church buildings
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church (Selma, Ala.)
Courthouses
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Race discrimination
Rain and rainfall
Umbrellas
Activists
Processions
Capitols
Children
Equality
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Protests (Negotiable instruments)
Streets
Bereavement--Psychological aspects
People
Assassins
Housing
Riots
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)
Megaphones
Picketing
Race riots--Illinois--Chicago
People
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Reeb, James, 1927-1965
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Belafonte, Harry, 1927-
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015
Guyot, Lawrence, Jr., 1939-2012
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Travers, Mary, 1936-2009
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Location
United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
Medium
black-and-white negatives
color slides
color transparencies
photographic prints
Type
StillImage
Description
Explore the Museum’s vast and diverse collection of prints and photographic materials. Dating from the late 18th century to the present, this material comprises the single largest source of pictorial information for the Chicago metropolitan area. The selection of images available here documents spectacular and everyday moments in the history of the city and the nation and represents a broad range of historical and contemporary visual media. They include etchings, engravings, lithographs, cabinet cards, cartes de visite, cased images, stereocards, glass plate and film-based negatives, photographic prints, broadsides, and posters.
Language
eng
Contributing Institution
Chicago History Museum
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