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Silent home movies featuring the Finnegans’ trip to Tampa, Florida and wintertime at home in Chicago.

Home movie of a family's trip to Lake Geneva. Consists mainly of boating or sailing footage.

A short travelogue film of Havana, Cuba shot for the Metro Movie Club, a Chicago amateur film club.

Black & white home movie of a trailer trip vacation through South Dakota and Wyoming with footage of historic sites in national parks. There is fo...

Home movie footage of a visit to a New Orleans zoo and a trip to New York City.

Home movie of a trip to Florida. The couple visits old buildings, a monkey reserve, and go fishing.

The first of two-reels by Julian Gromer about his two son’s John and Gary from 1948 through 1972. The film begins with the birth of his elder son J...

Color home movie footage of a family’s trip to Mexico City. Includes footage of a family posing on Chapultepec Castle’s balcony.

Color home movie of a trip to Mexico. Includes footage of people wandering around a Mexican estate, followed by market scenes and a gondola trip on...

A home movie that includes a Midway United Service Organizations (USO) Service Center parade and speech, as well as footage of a trip to San Franci...

This home movie begins with scenes from a children's birthday party and ends with a family's trip to Texas. The birthday scenes feature chi...

A series of shots from vacations: lounging on a beach, going boating, and horseback riding in the mountains. The vacationers are happy-looking coup...

The home movies on this reel were shot by Mervin LaRue Sr. and include significant milestones that occurred in the 1940s for his son Mervin Jr. (wh...

Home movies taken by Mervin LaRue Sr. of a 1949 trip back to Ontario. The family had previously lived in Canada from 1916 to 1926, while Mervin Sr....