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Perser Family Collection
A Step in Time Saves Nine
Industrial film detailing how Avon Cosmetics factory workers can be more productive.
Robert and Theresa Davis Collection
Kansas City Newsreel
Independently-produced newsreel featuring brief human interest stories. Subjects include: cleaning Pullman cars at the Kansas City Terminal Yards; ...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Post Office: Nancy
Outtakes from JoAnn Elam's
Everyday People
, featuring mail carrier Nancy Morgan as she delivers mail in the Logan Square/Palmer Square nei...
Jack Behrend Collection
Case of Barbara Parsons, The
“Barbara Parsons is a recently hired employee with the company where Michael Blais has worked for nineteen years. Still, when a supervisor announce...
Charles E. Krosse Collection
[Keystone "Galvannealed" Square Deal Fence]
Industrial film showing galvannealed square deal fence production at Keystone Steel & Wire in Peoria, Illinois.
Rhodes Patterson Collection
Marina City Construction 1960-'62
Shot between 1960 and 1962, this footage captures early construction of Chicago's Marina City, a high rise mixed-use complex on the Near North Side...
Rhodes Patterson Collection
Marina City Construction 1960-'62
Shot between 1960 and 1962, this footage captures early construction of Chicago's Marina City, a high rise mixed-use complex on the Near North Side...
Rhodes Patterson Collection
WWII: India - Water Lift
Rhodes Patterson Collection
WWII: 1944, B-29 China Base ‘Ancient Workers’
Rhodes Patterson Collection
Waste Watchers IV
Industrial film produced by Container Corporation of America, likening their 1980 Waste Watchers program (aimed at reducing waste at their factorie...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Pole Top Rescue (Parts 1 & 2)
An instructional film that discusses safe working methods for utility companies. More specifically, the film teaches utility company employees how ...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Post Office: JJ Dogs
Footage from JoAnn Elam's unfinished film
Everyday People
, following United States Postal Service mail carrier Juan Ortiz on his route. The ...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Everyday People Workprint
Footage from JoAnn Elam's unfinished film
Everyday People
. Much of the footage can be seen in the film's
roug...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Post Office: C1
Footage from JoAnn Elam's unfinished film
Everyday People
, focusing on United States Postal Service workers sorting mail. Some of the footag...
JoAnn Elam Collection
Post Office: Nancy
Outtakes from JoAnn Elam's
Everyday People
, featuring mail carrier Nancy Morgan as she delivers mail in the Logan Square/Palmer Square nei...
JoAnn Elam Collection
[Postal Service]
Professionally-shot outtakes of United States Postal Service employees sorting mail onto and from conveyor belts. Occasional slates appearing betwe...
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