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47th Street
| Date | April 1941 |
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| Location | Chicago Illinois United States |
| Dimensions | Image: 10 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. (26 x 34.3 cm) Paper: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm) |
| Print medium | Photo-Gelatin silver |
"STAND IN THE CENTER OF THE BLACK BELT-at Chicago's 47th Street and South Parkway. Around you swirls a continuous eddy of faces-black, brown, olive, yellow, and white. Soon you will realize that this is not 'just another neighborhood'..."
-St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton, 'Black Metropolis' (1945)
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Museum Purchase, 2003
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Accession No. 1.2003