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Robert and Theresa Davis Collection
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Jack Behrend Collection
Sailing: Do It Right- Keep It Safe
This sailing instructional film teaches basic boat handling and sailing safety skills demonstrated by a couple learning to sail along with a series...
Jack Behrend Collection
Mural Midwest Metropolis
Promotional film for Chicago as a tourist destination. The narrator highlights many attractions, including: boating on Lake Michigan; going to the ...
Margaret Conneely Collection
Explorer Scouts Making Fiberglass Canoes
Amateur silent film of a boy scout troop making a fiberglass canoe step by step from a mold, from start to finish. Boy scouts all help in each pa...
Glick - Berolzheimer Collection
1937 (circa): Wrigley Field & Sheldon
Home movie portraying a baseball game taking place at Wrigley field. This is followed by footage of a young boy, Sheldon Glick, playing with a ball...
Charles E. Krosse Collection
[Peoria Community Fund Campaign Film]
Sponsored film made for the "Hands Across the City" fundraising campaign by the Peoria Community Fund Association in 1935.
Mort and Millie Goldsholl Collection
[Old Orchard Art Festival]
This footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl was taken at the Old Orchard Art Festival of Skokie, IL ca. 1963. It shows the art works on display, ofte...
Mort and Millie Goldsholl Collection
Japan: Street & Shrine - Pachinko
This footage by Mort and Millie Goldsholl documents their trip to Japan ca. 1964. First taken from a moving car, it shows the busy streets of an un...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Back Porch
While “Back Porch” shares title with several of Elams’ films, the content of this film appears completely unrelated to others. In its short duratio...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Palmer Square
A winter walk through snowy Palmer Square Park in Logan Square, Chicago, near JoAnn Elam's home. Occasionally a small dog walks into frame.
JoAnn Elam Collection
Focus On
Footage of dirt bikes on a course, Frisbee-throwing in a park, dogs, cars, bicycles, and baseball are intercut in this fast-paced film, which frequ...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Bowl
Bowl
belongs to a series of elements in the JoAnn Elam collection featuring JoAnn Elam and her coworkers from the US Post Office at the bo...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Bowl
Bowl
belongs to a series of elements in the JoAnn Elam collection featuring JoAnn Elam and her coworkers from the US Post Office at the bo...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Bowling ‘82
Bowling ‘82
belongs to a series of elements in the JoAnn Elam collection featuring JoAnn Elam and her coworkers from the US Post Office at...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Post Office Picnic (Original)
Children and parents alike laugh and play during a picnic on a sunny day in an unidentified Chicago park. Games played include wheelbarrow races, o...
Frank Koza Collection
Nixon Supporters On Michigan Ave. Bridge, GOP Parade & Kites for Rockefeller Neg. Trims
Negative trims capturing the scenes of downtown Chicago during the 1960 Republican National Convention.
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