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Finnegan_008

Silent home movies featuring the Finnegans’ trip to Tampa, Florida and wintertime at home in Chicago.
1939: Ferry Ride - Ice Skating

Home movie of a family’s ferry ride followed by children ice skating.
Loop Christmas

A home-movie style series of shots of shoppers and pedestrians on Daley Plaza, Dearborn, and State Street during Christmastime.
[Chicago Loop Christmas]

A home-movie style series of shots of shoppers and pedestrians on Daley Plaza, Dearborn, and State Street during Christmastime.
Blizzard of '79 (Original)

Footage documenting the famed "Blizzard of '79," including examples of parking "dibs," people digging out their cars, and a postal carrier deliveri...
Chicago - Firemen Trapped, Killed in Burning Building 2/15/62

Silent news outtakes show the aftermath of a deadly apartment building fire on E. 70th Street in Chicago on February 14, 1962.
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Contains a sequence with five women role-playing as suffragettes, most wearing 19th century dresses and skirts with one wearing a checkered pantsui...
1939

Black and white footage depicting the wintry streets of Chicago circa 1939.
Chicago in Black and White

Black and white footage depicting the wintry streets of Chicago circa 1940, including both daytime and nighttime scenes, mostly in the downtown area.