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Distro - Chicago's Southside. 1946 - 1948. 

Wayne Miller 

Wayne Miller's photographs chronicle of black Chicago of fifty years ago: the South Side community of thousands of African Americans, almost exclusively from the South, settled in the city during the Great Migration of World War II years. The black-and-white images provide a visual history of Chicago at the height of its industrial order-when the stockyards, steel mills, and factories were booming-but, more important, they capture the intimate moments in the daily lives of ordinary people. Miller was adept at becoming invisible, and his photographs are full of naked, disarming emotion.

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Wayne Miller 1947

USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Sweeping the sidewalk in the morning.... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Looking north on South Parkway... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. A tenement on South Indiana Avenue,... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Spectators at the Bud Billiken... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Four men outside beauty shop.

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Storefront.

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Rabbits for sale.

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Storyteller.

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. A woman and her squatter's shack... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. An alley between overcrowded tenements,... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Boy outside "Fish Market". 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Blind man with a street piano. 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Spectators at a pool hall. 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Afternoon game at table 2.

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. "Simple" was a character that Langston... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Keeping warm, pool hall.

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Girl with newspaper fashion supplement.... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Three young men standing in doorway.... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Blues at the Maxwell Street flea... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Man at window of shack. 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Two girls waiting outside a tavern.... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Merchants, South Halsted Street.... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Two walkers. Alleys were important... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. "When the wagon wheels are in the... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. Striker on picket line of packing house... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Workers shovel scrap metal at the... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Repairing the furnace chimney.... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Lunch Break.

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Black safety inspector, the supervisor... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Mallet used to release cooling... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Company nine battling a blaze in... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Coal delivery and postman.

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Man waiting on street.

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Young ice man, with World War II... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Delivery man and horse with nose... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Railroad passenger car maintenance... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Dining car workers, Illinois Central... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Selling fish in an alley way.

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Workers demolishing building.

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Strike captain during protest by... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Chicago police sergeant questioning... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Street sweeper in World War II... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Western Union telegram messenger.... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Impromptu hoedown on the third... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Lena HORNE backstage at the Chez... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Debutante Ball sponsored by the... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Checkroom at the parkway ballroom.... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Chorus girls backstage at the Rum... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1946. Wedding.

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Party at the Parkway Community... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Female impersonator.

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. An afternoon beer.

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Female Impersonator dressing for... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. "Reefer Party".

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Eartha KITT (center) leading a... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Duke ELLINGTON rehearsing on stage... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Two Musicians, 1:40 am. 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1947. Tuesday Afternoon on South Halsted... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. Louis JORDAN, a popular musician... 

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USA. Illinois. Chicago. 1948. American singer Ella FITZGERALD... 
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