CARLI Digital Collections Featured Image: Butchers with Corned Beef

The CITY 2000 digital collection contains, at present, 177 images from the Chicago in the Year 2000 project. To create this photographic time capsule in which Chicagoans recorded a visual diary of their millennium year, more than 200 photographers spent 366 days canvassing the city and chronicling its people, places, and personality. The photographers shot more than 500,000 frames and visited each of the city's neighborhoods. The pictures in the resulting archive—which contains audio and video recordings as well—show everyday life, special celebrations, and buildings and landscapes. The archive was donated by Gary Comer to the UIC Library in 2001, with the understanding that the library would make the images and sounds of the city available to the serious and casual user alike and would preserve these images for 1,000 years.

Lloyd DeGrane took this photograph on March 13, 2000, in the Beverly community area of Chicago. In this image, Dave Anders and Mike Benson prepare slabs of corned beef before St. Patrick's Day at the County Fair Store. Other images in this collection from DeGrane’s “People in Uniforms” series include ballet dancers, Catholic nuns, hazardous materials removal workers, lifeguards, a man and a woman in National Guard uniform, and waitresses at Hooters.

For more information about this and other CARLI Digital Collections.

To learn more about becoming part of CARLI Digital Collections and using CONTENTdm.