Course Guide ~ HIST 125 / Black Metropolis

General

• FamilySearch
• U.S. Census Bureau: Instructions to Enumerators
• Census Enumeration District Definitions (1930)
• Census Enumeration District Finder (1930)

1910 Census

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• Browse: Cook County > All Enumeration Districts

1920 Census

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1930 Census

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• Search: United States > Illinois > Cook County > Chicago (part) > Film Number 2340153
   
• Browse: Cook County > All Enumeration Districts
• Browse: Cook County > Chicago > Enumeration District 53
  Bounded by: West 33rd Street (N) - South State Street (E) - West 35th Street (S) - Federal Street (W)
• Browse: Cook County > Chicago > Enumeration District 57
  Bounded by: West 35th Street (N) - South State Street (E) - West 36th Street (S) - South Dearborn Street (W)
• Browse: Cook County > Chicago > Enumeration District 67
  Bounded by: East 37th Street (N) - Indiana Avenue (E) - East Pershing Road (S) - South State Street (W)

1940 Census

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• Browse: Cook County > All Enumeration Districts

• Black's Blue Book
  Chicago: Ford S. Black, 1918. (Internet Archive)
   
• Polk's Chicago Street and Avenue Guide and Directory of Householders, 1928-29
  Chicago: R. L. Polk, 1928. (Chicago Historical Society Collection)

Chicago

• Chicago History Museum Collection Online
  Online access to many of the most significant, exciting, and popular materials in the museum's collection.
   
• Chicago Public Library Digital Collections
  Photographs from Chicago Public Library's special collections.
   
• Explore Chicago Collections
  Online portal to digital images and finding aids from Chicago libraries, museums and archives.

• Souvenir of Negro Progress: Chicago, 1779-1925
  Digitized compilation of material published by John Taitt in 1925 found in the New York Public Library digital archive. Includes images of businesses and community centers on Chicago's South Side.

• The Negro in Chicago; A Study of Race Relations and the Race Riot, by the Chicago Commission on Race Relations
  Digitized images from the 1919 report on the Chicago Race Riot. 

• Images of Chicago taken from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information

General

• Critical Past
  Stock image and video footage. Royalty free.
   
• Internet Archive
  The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format that includes texts, audio, moving images, software, and archived web pages.
   
• Library of Congress
  The largest library in the world includes millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. Many collections are available online.
   
• The Milton and Nelma Fillius Jazz Archive
  Collection of videotaped interviews, currently numbering 300+ entries, with jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics.
   
• Sonic Dictionary
  A growing collection of sounds and exhibits created by students at Duke University and collaborating institutions.
   

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

• Entire Volume
  Insurance Maps of Chicago, Illinois. Volume 4. New York: Sanborn Map Company, 1912. Collection of the University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
   
• Page 76
  Insurance Maps of Chicago, Illinois. Volume 4. New York: Sanborn Map Company, 1912.
  Streets: Armour, South Dearborn, South State, 35th, 36th
   
• Page 130
  Insurance Maps of Chicago, Illinois. Volume 4. New York: Sanborn Map Company, 1912.
  Streets: South State, South Wabash, South Michigan, East 37th, East 38th, East 39th

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