‘Photographing Freetowns’ Exhibit at Newberry Library
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A local photographer’s look at African-American communities during the 1930s and '40s.
A new exhibition at the Newberry Library features a rarely seen collection of work by Chicago-area photographer Helen Balfour Morrison, who documented the history of small communities founded by former slaves after the Civil War.
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‘Photographing Freetowns’ Exhibit at Newberry Library
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A new exhibition at the Newberry Library features a rarely seen collection of work by Chicago-area photographer Helen Balfour Morrison, who documented the history of small communities founded by former slaves after the Civil War.
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