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Silent home movies that feature four sisters performatively posing, playing outside and enjoying carnival rides together, sometimes including their...

The family is depicted picking flowers in a garden.

Children are seen gathered by a Christmas tree. Then, a woman, child and soldier pose together on a sunny sidewalk.

Two separate Heidkamp home movies, one from 1929 and one from 1951, both shot in the Chicago area.

Home movie capturing the 6th birthday party thrown for Palazzolo's daughter, Sarah Marie, who was born in 1972. Features scenes of children eating ...

Home movie documenting birthday celebrations for Palazzolo's daughter, Amy Louise, who was born in 1974. The footage captured here is most likely o...

Sound home movie depicting the Palazzolo family's 1977 Halloween outing.

Home movie shot by Barbara Suster in Des Plaines and Elgin, Illinois, featuring the extended Suster family. Prominently features a large orange cat...

Short, silent advertisement for the QRS Company's combination camera and projector. The Chicago-based company sold the 16mm equipment for $98.50, u...

Home movie of the Suster family featuring footage of a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field and of Lake Michigan from Oak Street Beach.

Home movie of family travel and leisure, mostly around Wisconsin.

Home movie depicting a road trip to Wisconsin and Minnesota. Judy and Connie Maugans check out Little Norway in Blue Mounds, WI; House on the Rock ...

This 1980 home movie by Connie and Judy Maugans shows the Maugans family celebrating the 4th of July together in Indiana. They play games with the ...

Humorous short film depicting a mother who waits for her son to return home for what seems to be decades. On the outset a serene figure, cooking an...

Home movie footage of a child on a farm as well as a retreat to Chicago’s Lincoln Park.

Home movie footage of college students followed by children gathered outside a home in winter clothing.