Russell Lee: Illinois Photographs

Headquarters of Lawsonomy, Springfield, Illinois

1938

Headquarters of Lawsonomy, Springfield, Illinois

1938

Shop on Maxwell Street, Chicago, Illinois

1941

Gypsies living on South Side of Chicago, Illinois

1941

Man on South Side of Chicago, Illinois

1941

Apartment building on South Side of Chicago, Illinois

1941

Religious procession of Episcopal Church, Chicago, Illinois

1941

Shaking hands after church services, Chicago, Illinois

1941

Sign in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

1941

Sign in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

1941

Soil erosion in White County, Illinois

1937

The basement of the Good Shepherd Community Center is…

1941

Shuffleboard being played in basement of Good Shepherd…

1941

The basement of the Good Shepherd Community Center is…

1941

A neighbor comes to talk about selling his horse to Oscar…

1937

Publisher and editor of Chicago Defender, Negro newspaper.…

1941

Publisher of the Chicago Defender, Negro newspaper.…

1941

Sign on store, Aledo, Illinois

1938

During the services of the "storefront" Baptist church.…

1941

Apartment house in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

1941

Secretary in undertaking establishment. Southside of…

1941

Death. Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Death. Chicago,…

1941

Doctor in his office. Southside of Chicago, Illinois

1941

Vacant lot and backs of apartment buildings. Southside of…

1941

Dwellings in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Housing in Negro…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Back of multi-family…

1935

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Housing for Negroes…

1941

Meeting of NYA (National Youth Administration) girls with…

1941

Art training is sponsored by the Good Shepherd Community…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Old brownstone houses…

1941

The best dressed Negro in Chicago, Illinois, spends an…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Prosperous Chicagoan…

1941

Apartment buildings rented to Negroes. Chicago, Illinois

1941

The new and the old in the apartment houses in the Negro…

1941

Old brownstone houses now occupied by Negroes in Chicago,…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: The Good Shepherd…

1941

Good Shepherd Community Center. Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Chicago, Illinois.…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Scene in Negro…

1941

Kitchenette apartments on South Parkway, Chicago, Illinois.…

1941

Scene in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

1941

View in one of the Negro residential sections of Chicago,…

1941

View in one of the Negro residential sections of Chicago,…

1941

Housing in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Housing for Negroes…

1941

NYA (National Youth Administration) girls and instructor at…

1941

Boys and girls presenting membership cards at recreational…

1941

Shuffleboard being played in basement of the Good Shepherd…

1941

Boxing is popular at the Good Shepherd Community Center.…

1941

Training in art is sponsored by the Good Shepherd Community…

1941

Front of houses in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Prosperous Chicagoan…

1941

Old brownstone buildings which are now occupied by Negroes.…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Good Shepherd…

1941

Ida B. Wells Housing Project for Negroes. Chicago, Illinois

1941

The Good Shepherd Community Center. Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Chicago, Illinois.…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Apartment buildings…

1941

Children playing in vacant lot in Negro section of Chicago,…

1941

Rummage sale in the Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Doctor examining…

1941

Back of apartments rented to Negroes. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Master bedroom in home of well-to-do Negro. Chicago,…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Master bedroom in…

1941

Living room in home of well-to-do Negro. Chicago, Illinois

1941

New houses built by Negroes in better residential section.…

1941

Bookkeeper of insurance company. Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Shoestore on 47th…

1941

Shoestore on 47th Street. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Ten-cent store on 47th Street. Customers are mostly…

1941

Policeman talking to employee of Ten-cent store whose trade…

1941

Negro girl standing in doorway. Family is on relief.…

1941

Children sleeping during rest period at Negro nursery.…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Dining room of Negro…

1941

Chicago, Illinois. Family on relief

1941

Front of apartment houses rented to Negroes. Chicago,…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Southside. Chicago,…

1941

Doctor entering home of relief family. Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Entrance to second…

1941

Dress shop which caters to Negroes. 47th Street, Chicago,…

1941

Men's shop which caters to Negroes. 47th Street, Chicago,…

1941

House on Federal Street in the Negro section of Chicago,…

1941

Houses and grocery store on Federal Street in the Negro…

1941

Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Apartment houses and…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Hall leading to…

1941

Kitchen of railroad worker. Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Linotype operators of…

1941

Little girl at nursery. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Rest period at Negro nursery. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Employee in real estate office catering to Negro clients.…

1941

Apartment houses rented to Negroes. Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Pneumo-thorax…

1941

Clinic patient receiving instruction card at municipal…

1941

Mother and children at home. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Patients at clinic paying bills. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Doctors at hospital scrubbing up. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Doctor examining patient in her home. Family is on relief.…

1941

Apartment houses rented to Negroes. Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Master bedroom in…

1941

Living room in home of well-to-do Negro. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Mother with her children at home. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Shoe store catering to Negroes. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Ten-cent store catering to Negroes. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Buying jewelry in ten-cent store which caters to Negroes.…

1941

Buying hats in ten-cent store which caters to Negroes.…

1941

Negro children eating biscuits. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Negro boy eating. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Negro children. Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Chicago, Illinois.…

1941

Chicago, Illinois. Scene in Negro section

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Dress shop which…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Entrance to second…

1941

Bedroom of Negro girl. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Apartment houses rented to Negroes. Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Apartment houses and…

1941

Front of house on Federal Street in Negro section of…

1941

Pneumo-thorax treatment in municipal tuberculosis…

1941

Negro boys during rest period at nursery. There is a…

1941

Hall leading to apartment of Negro railroad worker.…

1941

Real estate office catering to Negroes. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Undertaker. Chicago, Illinois

1941

47th Street, Chicago, Illinois

1941

Municipal tuberculosis sanitarium, Chicago, Illinois,…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Negro children…

1940

Family on relief. Chicago, Illinois

1941

One of the leaders talking at the Pentecostal church on the…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Pastor of the…

1941

One of the leaders at the Pentecostal church directing the…

1941

Choir of Pentecostal church. Southside of Chicago, Illinois

1941

House and children in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

1941

Entrance to house in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Children. Chicago,…

1941

Entrance to high school. Southside of Chicago, Illinois

1941

Children at high school being posed for photograph.…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Detail of crowd…

1941

Sound effects man of orchestra at Savoy Ball Room. Chicago,…

1941

Detail of crowd watching the orchestra at the Savoy…

1941

Preparing the evening meal. Notice the laundry hanging near…

1941

Hall of second floor of building rented as rooming house.…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Room in rooming house…

1941

Room in abandoned building formerly used for hospital.…

1941

Preacher at "store front" Baptist church. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Singing at a Pentecostal church. Chicago, Illinois

1941

One of the leaders of the Pentecostal church testifying.…

1941

One of the leaders of the Pentecostal church testifying.…

1941

Some of the members of the Pentecostal church with crutches…

1941

Sleeping children. Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Corner of kitchen of…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Corner of kitchen of…

1941

Solo at the Pentecostal church. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Member of the Pentecostal church testifying. Chicago,…

1941

Members of the Pentecostal church praising the Lord.…

1941

Little boy putting on his shoes. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Corner of kitchen of apartment rented to Negroes. Chicago,…

1941

Rear of apartments rented to Negroes. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Members of the choir of the Pentecostal church. Chicago,…

1941

Corner of kitchen of family on relief. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Toilet in home of family on relief. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Children's choir of Pentecostal church. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Rubbish piles are frequent in the Negro sections of…

1941

Spring gardening adjacent to railroad tracks in Negro…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: House in Negro…

1941

Family on relief. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Children. Chicago, Illinois

1941

High school graduating class. Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Detail of crowd…

1941

The band at the Savoy Ballroom. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Girl listening to music at dance. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Children of family on relief playing. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Upstairs bedroom of family on relief. Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Entrance to second…

1941

Room in rooming house for Negroes. Chicago, Illinois

1941

During the services at "storefront" Baptist church on…

1941

Pastor of the Pentecostal church. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Opening of services at the Pentecostal church. Chicago,…

1941

Processional of children's choir of the Pentecostal church.…

1941

Boys of children's choir putting on their robes. Chicago,…

1941

The movies are popular in the Negro section of Chicago,…

1941

Street scene in the Negro district on Easter morning.…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: "Storefront" church.…

1941

Members of the congregation of the "storefront" Baptist…

1941

"Storefront" Baptist church during services on Easter…

1941

In front of the movie theater. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Undertaker before funeral services. Southside, Chicago,…

1941

Death. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Before funeral services in undertaking parlor. Southside of…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Letter to the…

1941

Letter to the congretation of the Pentecostal church.…

1941

Negro children asleep. Southside of Chicago, Illinois

1941

Processional of the choir of the Pentecostal church.…

1941

Children putting on choir robes. Pentecostal church.…

1941

Entrance to movie theater. Southside of Chicago, Illinois

1941

"Storefront" church. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Reading the Bible in the "storefront" Baptist church.…

1941

Pastor of the "storefront" Baptist church. Southside of…

1941

Photoengraver of the Chicago Defender, a Negro newspaper.…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Linotype operator.…

1941

Linotype operator. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Front room of apartment rented by Negroes. Ida B. Wells…

1941

WPA (Work Projects Administration) work on playground on…

1941

Marriage license and Lord's Prayer above bed in Negro home.…

1941

Corner of bedroom with Negro housewife examining bed…

1941

Kitchen in crowded Negro apartment. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Doctor "signing in" at Negro hospital on southside of…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Doctor visiting…

1941

Photo engraver at Chicago Defender. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Linotype operator on the Chicago Defender, Negro newspaper.…

1941

WPA (Work Projects Administration) work on playground on…

1941

WPA (Work Projects Administration) worker. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Front room of apartment rented by Negroes. Ida B. Wells…

1941

Coal storage in hall of apartment house rented to Negroes.…

1941

Detail in room of apartment house gutted by fire. This…

1941

Bedroom in apartment house rented to Negroes. Chicago,…

1941

Doctors scrubbing up before operation. Negro hospital,…

1941

Doctor visiting patient in Negro hospital. Chicago, Illinois

1941

Doctor getting charts from head nurse at Negro hospital.…

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Kitchen in crowded…

1941

Doctors examining baby whose parents have just brought him…

1941

Waiting at the clinic of the Negro hospital. Chicago,…

1941

Crowded apartment of railroad worker. Chicago, Illinois

1941

[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Back of apartment…

1941