A Tenement on South Indiana Avenue, the type of housing for half of the city's black children 2023.23

After school 2023.24

An alley between overcrowded tenements, with garbage thrown over the railings of the back porches. Most of the area’s tenants were transient. 2023.25

Anti-lynching demonstration 2023.26

Black safety inspector, the supervisor of his white coworker at International Harvester 2023.27

Blimp in fog with ground crew 2023.53

Blimp seen from inside hangar 2023.54

Blues at the Maxwell Street flea market 2023.28

Boy pulling cart of wood 2023.29

Chorus girls backstage at the Rum Boogie Club 2023.30

Control man lifting wheel stopper 2023.55

Crew on carrier deck, plane above 2023.56

Dancing at the 45th St. bar that catered to slaughterhouse workers 2023.31

Eartha Kitt (center) leading a dance troupe rehearsing for the Chez Paree 2023.32

Father and son at Lake Michigan 2023.33

Female impersonator 2023.34

Girl "reading" Ebony magazine 2023.35

Gospel services 2023.36

Group of men laughing 2023.57

Impromptu hoedown on the third floor of a horse barn 2023.37

Japanese soldiers on train, leaning out window 2023.58

Lovers. Smiling woman 2023.38

Man pulling wagon down alley 2023.39

Men starting propeller 2023.59

Mother and son 2023.40

Moving to music 2023.41

Performers behind stage & beer vendor 2023.42

Plane from below, landing or taking off 2023.60

Planes in the sky 2023.61

Planes on the flight deck 2023.62

Puppy on ship 2023.63

Rabbits for sale, 1948 2023.43

Raid on Rabaul - seen from plane 2023.64

Raising aircraft from below flight deck 2023.65

Repairing the furnace chimney 2023.44

Sandlot baseball 2023.45

Solider at center of the blast 2023.66

Spectators at the Bud Billiken parade 2023.46

Storyteller 2023.47

Sunset - watching for Japanese kamikaze 2023.67

Three young men standing in doorway 2023.48

US soldier riding bike with parasol 2023.68

USS Saratoga seen from a plane. Plane tail visible. Cropped 2023.69

Victims of blast, man lying down 2023.70

Vivian Henley, two hours old. Infants delivered at home by the Maxwell Street Maternity Center medical team had a better survival rate than those at most hospitals. 2023.49

Wedding 2023.50

Wednesday night bible class at a storefront church 2023.51

Woman at bar in booth with beer, alone 2023.52

Women working on parts 2023.71