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Bert Van Bork Collection
Volcanoes: Exploring a Restless Earth
Margaret Conneely Collection
You Are There: “The Chicago Fire”
Episode of the television series “You Are There” featuring a fake news report on the Chicago Fire of 1871. Walter Cronkite acts as the news anchor ...
Margaret Conneely Collection
News Parade 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950
The News Parade of the Years 1947-1950 are documentary films made in the U.S. directed by Eugene W. Castle. News Parade is composed of newsreel ...
Margaret Conneely Collection
News Parade 1939
The News Parade of the Year 1939 is a documentary film made in the U.S. directed by Eugene W. Castle. News Parade is composed of newsreel footage...
Margaret Conneely Collection
News Parade 1937
The News Parade of the Year 1937 is a documentary film made in the U.S. directed by Eugene W. Castle. News Parade is composed of newsreel footage...
Margaret Conneely Collection
Disaster Strikes!
American Red Cross sponsored film made by RKO-Pathe that shows the importance of agencies that respond to unpredictable natural disasters.
St. Paul's Episcopal Collection
News Parade 1939
The News Parade of the Year 1939 is a documentary film made in the U.S. directed by Eugene W. Castle. News Parade is composed of newsreel footage...
Frank Koza Collection
Cleveland Gas Fire
Frank Koza Collection
Pekin Distillery Fire Neg.
Unedited footage capturing the aftermath of a fire at the American Distillery in Pekin, IL on August 3-4, 1954.
Frank Koza Collection
Refinery Fire Neg.
Unedited news footage of a massive fire blazing at the Standard Oil refinery at Whiting, Indiana in late August 1955.
Frank Koza Collection
Sunday Fire 4-14-57 Neg.
A crowd of onlookers watch the Chicago fire department attempt to extinguish a fire in the Jefferson Park neighborhood on April 14, 1957.
Frank Koza Collection
Grain Fire-Neg.
Footage of Chicago firefighters battling a massive fire at a grain elevator on the Calumet River.
Frank Koza Collection
Allgauer Restaurant Fire Chicago Negative Trims 5/13/58
Firefighters attempt to extinguish a massive fire at Allgauer's Fireside Restaurant in Lincolnwood, IL at the northwest corner of Lincoln and Touhy...
Frank Koza Collection
School Fire Inquest Opens Chicago SOF & Sil. Print Trims 12-10-58
Black and white footage of the inquest into the fire that took place at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago on December 1, 1958. 92 pupils and...
Frank Koza Collection
I.C. Wreck
Silent newsreel outtakes capturing the aftermath of an Illinois Centrail Railway train derailment near Chicago. Laborers endeavor to repair the tra...
Frank Koza Collection
San Francisco--Hotel, fire takes 19 lives 1-6-61 Sil. Neg. trims
Silent news outtakes capturing a deadly fire at San Francisco's Thomas Hotel on January 6, 1961. Firefighters are seen battling the blaze and recov...
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