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Ten great photos taken during the heyday of the blues
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The Chicago History Museum bought 40,000 photos in 2016 from the estate of Raeburn Flerlage, a music promoter, salesman, and radio host.
Flerlage also worked as a freelance photographer from 1959 to 1970. He died in 2002.
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.
Flerlage also worked as a freelance photographer from 1959 to 1970. He died in 2002.
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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.
- Chicago History Museum
- 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
- Raeburn Flerlage/Courtesy Chicago History Museum
- Mike Bloomfield interviewing Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) at Burnett's home in Chicago in 1964
- Chicago History Museum
- Little Walter at Theresa's Lounge in October 1965
- Chicago History Museum
- Willie Dixon performing at a recording session at Delmark Records on June 26, 1968
- Chicago History Museum
- Muddy Waters performing at Pepper’s Lounge at 43rd and Vincennes in 1961
- Chicago History Museum
- Little Walter playing guitar near Maxwell Street in the early 1960s
- Chicago History Museum
- Otis Spann and James Cotton rehearsing in Muddy Waters's basement in Chicago in February 1965
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