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Chuck Kleinhans Collection
Logan Square - Various
Scenes of public life in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood in the late 1970s.
Tom Palazzolo Collection
Found Maxwell St. ca. 1940s
Footage of Chicago's Maxwell Street Market, likely shot in the 1940s by an unknown filmmaker. It made its way into Tom Palazzolo's collection while...
Tom Palazzolo Collection
Found Maxwell St. ca. 1971
Footage of Chicago's Maxwell Street, circa 1971, shot by an unknown filmmaker. The film is part of Tom Palazzolo’s extensive collection documenting...
Pat Pahr Collection
Sox vs. Orioles
Another short film back Pat Pauhr filming a game between the White Sox’s and the Orioles.
Pat Pahr Collection
Sox Game vs. Oakland
Chicago Public Library Collection
Ratamata
Shot by filmmaker Jeff Kreines on Veterans Day in 1970 when he was only 16 years old, the film showed at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and was select...
Margaret Conneely Collection
D&B on Overpass: Chicago
Amateur unedited film with much footage of two teenage children walking, talking and resting by a river. In between these scenes, however, is detai...
Margaret Conneely Collection
Silver Bells
Outtakes from an amateur film that documents 1960s downtown Chicago during the holiday season. Footage includes children's visits to Santa Claus, a...
Margaret Conneely Collection
Chicago: City to See in ‘63
A “city symphony” film, produced to encourage Photographic Society of America members to attend their 1963 conference in Chicago.
City to See
Bill Stamets Collection
Mayoral Election, 1983
Footage depicting Harold Washington on the campaign trail in 1983, ahead of the runup to the mayoral election. The film shows him being welcomed by...
Bill Stamets Collection
Mayoral Election, 1987
The footage features different segments offering a look into Chicago's 1987 mayoral election, featuring Harold Washington on the campaign trail, an...
Bill Stamets Collection
Mayoral Campaign, 1983
Second of four reels adding up to the film Chicago Politics: A Theater of Power.
Observational documentary following the 1983 Chicago Mayora...
Bill Stamets Collection
Chicago Politics: A Theater of Power Part I
The film depicts the competitive series of events leading up to the Chicago Mayoral Election of 1983 as well the public's response to the historica...
Bill Stamets Collection
Chicago Politics: A Theater of Power Part II
Third of four reels that were compiled in the video "Chicago Politics: A Theater of Power." Observational documentary following the 1987 Chicago Ma...
Bill Stamets Collection
Claes Chi Bat
Claes Oldenburg's "Batcolumn" sculpture is dedicated on April 14, 1977, outside the newly built Social Security Administration Center at 600 West M...
Bill Stamets Collection
Mayoral Campaign, 1987 (secondary)
Various outtakes documenting the energetic 1987 mayoral campaign. The footage captures the highly publicized candidature of Harold Washington, Jane...
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Jackson, Jesse, 1941-
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