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Joan Baez performing at the Newport Folk Festival: Baez on stage with guitar and microphones, ca. July 1967

Audience perched on a fence watching Muddy Waters at the Newport Folk Festival, ca. July 1967

Screen capture of the project's digital map of Haitian churches in Chicago.

Slow Air-Slip Jig

Pamphlet produced for the exhibition of the Du Sable cabin replica during the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.

Screenshot of Arts Buildings, Letters Building and Science Building

Photograph of 1970 Gay Alliance Rally to protest police harassment.

Photograph of 1970 Gay Alliance Rally to protest police harassment.

Joan Jett Blakk ad for President. She replicates the pose of Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party.

Advertisement for the Sunset Cafe in Bronzeville

Ad appearing in December 1863 Chicago Tribune for Kelly, Leon and Donniker's Minstrels

Map of the South Side Levee

"Among the most popular Dill Pickle Club events were its frequent masquerade balls. These events appealed to a broad range of partygoers, allowing wealthy residents of the Gold Coast to mingle in relative anonymity with working people and artists.…

Stead's If Christ Came to Chicago opened with a foldout juxtaposing an image of Christ and the money changers with this map of the block bounded by Clark, Dearborn, Harrison, and Polk Streets in Chicago's First Ward. The map both illustrated many of…