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In this footage, JoAnn Elam follows postal workers during the protest that their unions organized in Washington DC around 1978. Elam also films a p...

This footage by JoAnn Elam was taken during the 52nd National Convention of the American National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) that was he...

In this footage, JoAnn Elam follows postal workers during a protest that their unions organized in Washington, D.C., in the late 1970s. Prominently...

This footage by JoAnn Elam was probably shot in San Francisco, where Elam spent the “Summer of Love” in 1967 and which she perhaps visited again la...

Elam’s “Letters and Dishes” consists of two main sections. The initial sequence opens on white letters strewn about other clutter. The camera, mirr...

Footage from JoAnn Elam's unfinished film Everyday People, focusing on United States Postal Service workers sorting mail. Some of the footag...

Super 8mm footage of a postal workers demonstration in Washington, D.C., optically printed to 16mm with a strobing effect.

Outtakes from JoAnn Elam's Everyday People, featuring mail carrier Nancy Morgan as she delivers mail in the Logan Square/Palmer Square nei...

Outtakes from JoAnn Elam's Everyday People, featuring footage of Elam as she delivers mail on her route in the Logan Square neighborhood o...

Outtakes from JoAnn Elam's Everyday People, featuring Elam's husband Joe Hendrix as he delivers mail in the Logan Square neighborhood of C...