Only Negro store of its kind in the U.S., at 2933 State St., Chicago, Ill.

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Only Negro store of its kind in the U.S., at 2933 State St., Chicago, Ill.

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Photo shows three men standing at the entrance to the business establishment of "Chas. F. Gardner Electrician and Locksmith" at 2933 State Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Title from caption card.
Images collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway for the "American Negro Exhibit" at the Paris Exposition of 1900 (Exposition universelle internationale de 1900).
Reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900.

Chicago or: Chi-Town or Chitown, Chicagoland, The White City, City by the Lake, City of the Big Shoulders, City of Broad Shoulders, City of the Century, The 312, City on the Make, The City That Works, The Big Onion, City in a Garden, Hog-Butcher to the World, Beirut by the Lake, New York Done Right, Illville, I Will City, Paris on the Prairie, Sweet Home, Heart of America, The 773, The Alley Capital of America

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01/01/1899
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, collector
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Library of Congress
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