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The ghetto, Chicago, Ill. – Vintage Print

The ghetto, Chicago, Ill., c1920. — historic photograph
The ghetto, Chicago, Ill., c1920.. Historic photograph from the Chicago collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The caption on this stereograph, "The ghetto, Chicago, Ill.," uses a term that was applied loosely in the period to densely settled immigrant neighborhoods, and the subject tracing of markets points to street trade. Chicago's West Side, around the Maxwell Street market, was one such district, where newcomers sold goods from pushcarts and stalls. Keystone View Company, based in Meadville, Pennsylvania, produced stereo cards like this in large numbers for home viewers, who used a stereoscope to see city scenes with a sense of depth.

Created / publishedc1920.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No copyright renewal, 2-17-83. No. 32099. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Markets; Geogr.; Ph. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 723 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172186

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