The museum has put many of the images on display in its new "Amplified: Chicago Blues" exhibit. It also put 1,00o of them online in an easily searchable database.
The photos include shots of blues greats like Koko Taylor and Willie Dixon as well as folk artists like Bob Dylan. Here are ten of our favorites.
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Koko Taylor and Lightnin' Hopkins at Western Hall in Chicago on April 23, 1965
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The White Owl BarBQ House in March 1965
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Junior Wells performing at Theresa's on October 19, 1965
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Mike Bloomfield interviewing Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) at Burnett's home in Chicago in 1964
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Little Walter at Theresa's Lounge in October 1965
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Willie Dixon performing at a recording session at Delmark Records on June 26, 1968
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Muddy Waters performing at Pepper’s Lounge at 43rd and Vincennes in 1961
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Little Walter playing guitar near Maxwell Street in the early 1960s
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Otis Spann and James Cotton rehearsing in Muddy Waters's basement in Chicago in February 1965
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