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      Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties

      Michael Lesy

      Revisiting seventeen Chicago murder cases, this book presents a city where newspapers scrambled to cover the mayhems.

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      Long Time Coming: A Photographic Portrait of America, 1935-1943

      Michael Lesy

      Between 1935 and 1943 the Farm Security Administration sent a team of photographers, including Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, to make a photographic record of life in America. This book…

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      Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

      Michael Lesy (Hampshire College)

      Haunting views of the early twentieth century’s most significant events flank pictures of the last remnants of the premodern world.

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      Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910

      Michael Lesy (Hampshire College),Lisa Stoffer

      What we ate, how we ate, and how eating changed during America’s first real food revolution, 1900-1910.

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      Snapshots 1971-77

      Michael Lesy

      In the summer of 1971, Michael Lesy and a friend found most of the snapshots in Snapshots 1971-77 in a dumpster behind a gigantic photo-processing plant in San Francisco. The…

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      Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories

      Michael Lesy

      A unique meeting of two transformative talents in American photography, Walker Evans (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men) and Michael Lesy (Wisconsin Death Trip), with a selection of Evans’s little-seen…

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      Wisconsin Death Trip

      Michael Lesy

      This book is about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910. Against these are juxtaposed excerpts from the Badger…

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      Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922

      Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina. As an itinerant portraitist working during the rise of Jim Crow, Mangum photographed a clientele that was racially…

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