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Steppin', Chicago

2005

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black-and-white gelatin silver photograph titled “Steppin’, Chicago” by John Simmons. The photograph captures a dance floor with several people dancing and some sitting in chairs along the left side. At the center of the image is a couple dancing, a woman on the left and a man on the right, in the middle of a side-by-side step. The woman is wearing a long, backless, white gown with a v-neckline, white heels, hair in an up-do, and dangly earrings. The man is wearing a dark color pinstripe zoot suit with a light color shirt, a fedora with a feather in the ribbon, sunglasses and dark color shoes with two white horizontal lines from the heel to the toe. He is wearing stud earrings and a ring on his left ring finger.

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Catalog reference: 2023.39.45

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